Sinking of the RMS Titanic April 1912 when she left Southampton on the first leg of her journey to New York. A few hours later she called at Cherbourg in northern France, a journey of , where she took on passengers. Her next port of call was Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland, which she reached around midday on 11 April. She left in the afternoon after taking on more passengers and stores. By the time she departed westwards across the Atlantic she was carrying 892 crew members and 1,320 passengers. This was only about half of her full passenger capacity of 2,435, as it was
First class facilities of the RMS Titanic from their main dining saloons. This was in imitation of the Ritz restaurant first featured on board the Hamburg-Amerika liner SS Amerika in 1905, which had proven to be enormously popular. The restaurant could accommodate 137 diners at a time. On the "Olympic" the room was sandwiched between the Second-Class promenades on either side, making it smaller than the version on "Titanic", whose restaurant extended to the port side of the ship and whose starboard-side promenade deck was converted to the Café Parisien. The restaurant was the preferred alternative to the main dining saloon and gave passengers the option of