Memorials and monuments to the RMS Titanic victims Memorials and monuments to the RMS Titanic victims Monuments and memorials to the RMS "Titanic" victims exist in a number of places around the world associated with "Titanic", notably in Belfast, Liverpool and Southampton in the United Kingdom; Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada; and New York City and Washington, D.C. in the United States. The largest single contingent of victims came from Southampton, the home of most of the crew, which consequently has the greatest number of memorials. "Titanic" was built in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and had a "guarantee party" of engineers from shipbuilders Harland and Wolff aboard all of
RMS Titanic to 30 million (100% rise by 2008). It was subsequently identified in the Northern Ireland Tourism Board's Strategic Framework for Action 2004–2007 that the significance of and interest in "Titanic" globally (partly due to the 1997 film "Titanic") was not being fully exploited as a tourist attraction. Thus, "Titanic" Belfast® was spearheaded, along with some smaller projects, such as a "Titanic" memorial. In 2012 on the ship's centenary, "Titanic" Belfast visitor attraction was opened on the site of the shipyard where "Titanic" was built. It was Northern Ireland's second most visited tourist attraction with almost 700,000 visitors in 2016. Despite