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Southampton’s Titanic Story is an exhibition not to be missed. Listen to the busy sounds of the city and the hustle on board the RMS Titanic. See historic items from passengers and staff and learn about the Southampton residents working on the ship.
- The Titanic Engineers Memorial
- The Titanic Musician's Memorial
- Titanic Postal Workers Memorial
Located in East (Andrews) Park, it memorializes the engineers who died in the shipwreck. The bronze and granite memorial was originally unveiled by Sir Archibald Denny, president of the Institute of Marine Engineers on April 22, 1914.
The musician's memorial first unveiled by Titanic survivors in 1990 after the original memorial was destroyed by air raids in 1940. The newer memorial remembers the musicians who continued to play their instruments on the deck of the Titanic as the ship was sinking in an attempt to keep passengers calm.
Located in Southampton's main Civic Centre building, the memorial plaque is made from a spare propeller from the Titanic and commemorates the postal workers who died on the Titanic along with a book of remembrance. When it sank, Titanicwas transporting almost 3,500 sacks of mail containing an estimated 7 million pieces of mail. Southampton’s SeaCit...
On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage, sailing from Southampton, England, to New York City. Four days later the luxury liner struck an iceberg, and early the next day it sank, killing some 1,500 people. Learn more about the disaster in this infographic.
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died, making the incident the deadliest sinking of a single ship at the time.
May 28, 1999 · Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500 ( see Researcher’s Note: Titanic) passengers and ship personnel.
When she set sail across the Atlantic on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City on 10 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, at 52,310 tons, was the largest passenger steam ship the world had ever seen.
