Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic The Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the "Titanic" is a granite monument located on St. Nicholas Place, at the Pier Head, in Liverpool, England. The city of Liverpool is strongly associated with the ill-fated liner that sank on 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic with the loss of some 1,517 lives. The RMS "Titanic" was owned by White Star Line which was founded in Liverpool in 1840. Liverpool was also the port of registry of the liner with the words 'Titanic, Liverpool' visible on
Wreck of the RMS Titanic warning which never reached the bridge, a restaurant menu and a sample square of carpet from a First Class stateroom. RMS Titanic Inc. organizes large-scale exhibitions around the world of artifacts retrieved from the wreck site. After minor exhibitions were held in Paris and Scandinavia, the first major exhibition of recovered artifacts was held at the National Maritime Museum in 1994–95. It was hugely popular, drawing an average of 21,000 visitors a week during the year-long exhibition. Since then, RMS Titanic Inc. has established a large-scale permanent exhibition of "Titanic" artifacts at the Luxor hotel and casino in Las Vegas,