Tickets for the last meal to be served on a Navy warship about to go to the bottom are as popular as the world-famous ship after which the meal is named.
The Titanic Fund Raising Dinner on the old Navy steam frigate Wellington will replicate the last dinner served on the Titanic on April 14, 1912, when it hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic.
Tickets for the $500 a head meal on Saturday were all but sold out, said the SinkF69 Trust which bought the old warship from the Navy for $1 and which plans to sink it as a dive attraction at Island Bay, Wellington, on November 12.
The Titanic dinner would feature the 11 courses served on the ship before it sank.
Profits from the last meal would go towards the $600,000 cost of preparing and sinking the frigate, said the trust.
The Leander-class frigate was originally launched by the Royal Navy as HMS Bacchante before it was bought by New Zealand and renamed HMNZS Wellington.
The trust said many of the first crew of the ship when it was launched hoped to be at the sinking.
- NZPA
Frigate meal ticket popular
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