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 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