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
History of Southampton still an important ocean liner port, frequented by luxury ships such as P&O's "MV Oriana", and Cunarders "RMS Queen Mary 2", "MS Queen Victoria" and "MS Queen Elizabeth". It is the busiest cruise-ship terminal in the UK and handles the most amount of vehicle imports into the country. In 2012, a century after the Titanic disaster, the city council opened the SeaCity Museum. In the 2010s several developments to the inner-city of Southampton were completed. In 2016 the south section of West Quay, or West Quay South, originally known as West Quay Watermark, was opened to the public. It's public