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Rarelyseen items linked to the Titanic are to be shown in Liverpool to mark the 100th anniversary of its sinking The display at the Merseyside Maritime Museum includes a firstclass ticket thought to be the only one still in existence It belonged to a vicar who cancelled his trip on the doomed ship when his wife fell ill the day before it sailed More than 1500 people lost their lives after the ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 Reverend Stuart Holden from London had the ticket mounted and kept it above his desk until his death in 1934