Rod Stewart is ready for his next cruise and his chosen journey is one retracing the route of the stricken cruise liner of 100 years ago, the Titanic. The 66-year old Scottish rock singer will be on a Fred Olsen cruise set up to commemorate the 100th anniversary of this sad event, which claimed so many lives.

News has it that his wife Penny will have to remain behind, because she suffers from seasickness.

The Fred Olsen ship MS Balmoral will depart from Southampton on the 12th April next year. It will carry precisely the same number of passengers carried by the doomed Titanic 100 years ago: 1,309. With ticket prices peaking at £8,000 per passenger this is not a cheap cruise, but then how often does one get the chance of cruising on the same ship as Rod Stewart?

Perhaps Rod will get his ticket for free in return for belting out a few of his most famous songs in the entertainment lounge.

The rock star said “I would very much like to be on these ships that are going to be doing the Titanic run. I can’t get my wife to go because she suffers from seasickness on the Atlantic – she prefers a nice Caribbean cruise.”

When asked whether a cruise such as this was not tempting fate, he replied that things today were vastly different from 1912. The icebergs never drift that far south and if a stray one should venture too far south, it would be blown up.