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
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