Passengers of the RMS Titanic Passengers of the RMS Titanic An estimated 2,400 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS "Titanic", the second of the White Star Line's "Olympic" class ocean liners, from Southampton, England to New York City, New York, US. Partway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including approximately 815 of the passengers. The "Titanic"s passengers were divided into three separate classes, determined not only by the price of their ticket but by wealth and social class: those travelling in first
RMS Titanic in popular culture wherein the world, as Western man has known and shaped it, is undermined from within, not overcome from without; and ends not in holocaust but with a quiet slip into oblivion.” Don Lynch's "Inside the Titanic" (1997) presents an overview of the ship and the disaster, illustrated by the artist Ken Marschall, whose pictures of "Titanic" and other lost ships have become famous. Susan Wels' book "Titanic: Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner" (1997) documents the salvage work of RMS "Titanic" Inc, while Daniel Allen Butler provides a scholarly examination of the "Titanic" story in his 1998 book "Unsinkable: