RMS Titanic RMS Titanic RMS "Titanic" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS "Titanic" was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff
RMS Titanic in popular culture of the film "Atlantic". Noël Coward's highly successful 1931 play "Cavalcade", adapted into an Oscar-winning film of the same name in 1933, has a romantic plot which features a shock ending set aboard the "Titanic". In 1974 the disaster was used as the backdrop for the play "Titanic", which D. Brian Anderson characterises as "a one-act sexual farce". The passengers and crew eagerly await the arrival of the iceberg but the ship fails to find it. While "Titanic" wanders the ocean looking for the iceberg, those aboard fill the time by making a series of sexual revelations, such as the