Sarel Gous is to brief Belfast City Council's development committee on plans for the Titanic II.

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The Belfast shipyard's technical chief, Jim Lee, who has already met Mr Gous said the company was "listening closely to developments for Titanic II".

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Benziger, who agreed to serve on the advisory board for the Titanic II, said her great grandmother, who died in 1932, would have loved to see the Titanic rebuilt and complete the journey it never got to finish.

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However, Mr Gous said the Titanic II would be based on the old ship but would be much bigger, in fact the biggest liner in the world - dwarfing its namesake, which sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

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Just as World War II defined the beginning of the modern age, the sinking of the Titanic really marked the end of the 19th Century.

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