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
Memorials and monuments to the RMS Titanic victims Exception were made if friends or relatives wanted to erect a more elaborate headstone at their own expense; one such example is that of the grave of the "Titanic"s chief steward, Ernest Freeman, whose headstone was donated by the White Star Line's chairman J. Bruce Ismay. The graves are still maintained under a trust established by the White Star Line. Memorials and monuments to the RMS Titanic victims Monuments and memorials to the RMS "Titanic" victims exist in a number of places around the world associated with "Titanic", notably in Belfast, Liverpool and Southampton in the United Kingdom; Halifax, Nova