RMS Titanic for a ship of "Titanic"'s size, and tenders were used to bring passengers aboard. In all, 123 passengers boarded "Titanic" at Queenstown – three First Class, seven Second Class and 113 Third Class. In addition to the 24 cross-channel passengers who had disembarked at Cherbourg, another seven passengers had booked an overnight passage from Southampton to Queenstown. Among the seven was Father Francis Browne, a Jesuit trainee who was a keen photographer and took many photographs aboard "Titanic", including the last-ever known photograph of the ship. A decidedly unofficial departure was that of a crew member, stoker John Coffey, a
Port of Southampton representing 307 calls by passenger ships. On average, each docking is worth £1.25 million to the local economy. Southampton is the base of these cruise ships: and the ocean liner: In addition ships of other cruise companies sail from the port, including: - fourteen ships The container terminal is operated by DP World Southampton. The container port has of land – not counting the in the older Western Docks – available for port operations. Loading and unloading operations can be performed simultaneously on four large deep-sea container ships, plus one smaller ship 500 ft (150m) in length. This container terminal