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Titanic Commemoration
On Sunday 14th April 2019, ceremonies will be held in Cobh, the last port of call of
the Titanic to remember all those who died when the ship sank, but in particular the
passengers who boarded in Cobh. The ceremony which is an annual event organised
by Cobh Tourism will start at 2.30pm.
For 2019 the proceedings will commence at the Titanic Memorial Garden at the east
end of the Cobh waterfront and which overlooks the final anchorage of the Titanic.
Here a ceremony of prayers and wreath laying will have musical honours provided
by the Commodore Male Voice Choir. A wreath will be laid by the chairperson of
Cobh Tourism, Jack Walsh at the Glass Memorial Wall which bears the names of the
123 Queenstown passengers.

Immediately afterwards (approx. 3.15pm) a Colour Party from the Cobh Branch
O.N.E. will parade from the Old Town Hall at Lynch’s Quay to the Titanic Memorial in
Pearse Square.
Here the names of the 79 passengers who boarded the Titanic in Cobh on 11th April
1912 and who perished in freezing waters of the North Atlantic less than four days
later will be read out. Wreaths will then be placed at the Titanic Memorial in memory
all those lost in the tragedy. The ceremonies will conclude with Cobh Confraternity
Band’s rendition of the Last Post and Reveille. Members of the public are encour-
aged to attend. The Titanic Memorial Garden was developed in Cove Fort in 2013
by Cobh Tourism with assistance from SECAD and Cobh Town Council