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 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