RMS Empress of Britain (1905) transatlantic traffic, the ship was sometimes held in quarantine if a communicative disease was discovered amongst the passengers. Similarly, it would have been expected, for example, that the ship would notify authorities in Halifax that one passenger had died from pneumonia en route to Canada from Europe. Less than two weeks after disaster struck the RMS "Titanic" in the North Atlantic, "Empress of Britain" also struck an iceberg on 26 April 1912; but the reported damage was only slight. On 27 July 1912, "Empress of Britain" rammed and sank the British collier SS "Helvetia" in fog off Cape Magdelene in
RMS Titanic in popular culture visited in two Russian submersibles in the summer of 1995. With the advent of television, the themes and social microcosm provided by the "Titanic" scenario inspired TV productions, from expansive serial epics to satirical animated spoofs. The list of genres relating to the "Titanic" grew to include science fiction; and beginning with the first episode of "The Time Tunnel" in 1966, titled "Rendezvous With Yesterday", the RMS "Titanic" has become an irresistible destination for time-travelers. The "Titanic" was also spoofed in the "Pokémon" series as the S.S. "Cussler" in the episode "An Undersea Place to Call Home!.". After it sunk,