RMS Titanic and make a port of call on the northern coast of France, usually at Cherbourg. This allowed British ships to pick up clientele from continental Europe before recrossing the channel and picking up passengers at Queenstown. The "Southampton-Cherbourg-New York run" would become so popular that most British ocean liners began using the port after World War I. Out of respect for Liverpool, ships continued to be registered there until the early 1960s. "Queen Elizabeth 2" was one of the first ships registered in Southampton when introduced into service by Cunard in 1969. "Titanic"'s maiden voyage was intended to be the
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