"and make a port of call on the northern coast of France, usually at Cherbourg. This allowed British ships to pick up clientele from continental Europe before recrossing the channel and picking up passengers at Queenstown. The ""Southampton-Cherbourg-New York run"" would become so popular that most British ocean liners began using the port after World War I. Out of respect for Liverpool, ships continued to be registered there until the early 1960s. ""Queen Elizabeth 2"" was one of the first ships registered in Southampton when introduced into service by Cunard in 1969. ""Titanic""'s maiden voyage was intended to be the"
"indicating the recovery vessel: Numbers 324 and 325 were unused, and the six bodies buried at sea by the ""Carpathia"" also went unnumbered. In addition to the above-listed passengers, the ""Titanic"" carried 29 cross-channel passengers who boarded at Southampton and disembarked at either Cherbourg, France or Queenstown, Ireland. 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"
"and for the ship's operational use. Although ""Titanic"" had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, it only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—about half the number on board, and one third of her total capacity—due to outdated maritime safety regulations. The ship carried 16 lifeboat davits which could lower three lifeboats each, for a total of 48 boats. However, ""Titanic"" carried only a total of 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch during the sinking. After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, ""Titanic"" called at Cherbourg in France and"
"to convey passengers to Southampton and Cherbourg respectively. The deep-water dock at Southampton, then known as the """"White Star Dock"", had been specially constructed to accommodate the new ""Olympic""-class liners, and had opened in 1911. ""Titanic"" had around 885 crew members on board for her maiden voyage. Like other vessels of her time, she did not have a permanent crew, and the vast majority of crew members were casual workers who only came aboard the ship a few hours before she sailed from Southampton. The process of signing up recruits had begun on 23 March and some had been sent"
"1847, the geographical and technical properties of the port of Cherbourg attracted shipping companies linking European ports to the east coast of the United States. At the end of the 1860s, the ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and the Hamburg America Line anchored in the harbour before crossing the Atlantic. After leaving Southampton, England, the RMS ""Titanic"" made its first stop at Cherbourg on 10 April 1912, during its maiden voyage, where an additional 274 passengers embarked. In 1913, Cherbourg received 500 ships and 70,000 passengers. On 31 July 1909, tsar Nicholas II and French president Armand"
"St. Vincent. However the voyages did change, depending on cargo availability and other operational requirements. In North America, the main ports were Montreal, Port Alfred up the Saguenay River in Quebec, Halifax, Saint John (New Brunswick) and New York. In summer time the ships went to the ports in the St. Lawrence River, but in winter time Sunadele/Sunamelia were diverted to the ice-free ports of Halifax and Saint John. In Europe usually the ships called at Antwerp, Hamburg, Rotterdam, and in the U.K. at Avonmouth, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and Glasgow. For her maiden tour, the captain, officers and crew first"
"the first port of call outside of Southampton, England that the ship had made en route to its winter season Caribbean relocation transatlantic crossing. The ship remained at the berth in Ponta Delgada over night and eventually departed on the evening of November 2 after spare parts were flown in from Germany. Although the ship was delayed by thirty hours, the crew were able to make up the time over the next four days to arrive in Phillipsburg, St Maarten only a few hours later than scheduled. On Wednesday 9 November 2016, during the ship's call at the island of"
"was connected to the canal. The port of Trèbes is a major port which has numerous moorings for boats. There are also the ports of Homps which was one of the most important on the canal and Le Somail which was a popular place for rest and recreation. Finally, just before its arrival at the Mediterranean Sea, the canal has two ports: the port of Agde where there is the old hotel of the ""Administration of the Canal"", and the port of Onglous at Marseillan which is the last port before Sète and its royal canal giving access to the"
"an ""Agreement and Account of Voyages and Crew"", valid for 12 months, which declared the ship seaworthy. An hour later, ""Titanic"" departed Belfast to head to Southampton, a voyage of about . After a journey lasting about 28 hours she arrived about midnight on 4 April and was towed to the port's Berth 44, ready for the arrival of her passengers and the remainder of her crew. Both ""Olympic"" and ""Titanic"" registered Liverpool as their home port. The offices of the White Star Line as well as Cunard were in Liverpool, and up until the introduction of the ""Olympic"", most"
"de Lorient"". ""Bretagne"" was laid down at the ""Arsenal de Brest"" shipyard in Brest on 22 July 1912. ""Lorraine"" followed at the ""Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire"" shipyard in St. Nazaire almost six months later on 7 November 1912. Due to the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, French industrial capacity was redirected to the army and work slowed on the ships. The Greek Navy ordered a battleship to be named ""Vasilefs Konstantinos"" to the same design from AC de St Nazaire Penhoet. Work began in June 1914 but ceased on the outbreak of war"
"as a stationary seamen's school for the Finnish Merchant Navy. In 1991, ""Suomen Joutsen"" was donated to the city of Turku and became a museum ship moored next to Forum Marinum. In 1902, the French shipping company Société Anonyme des Armateurs Nantais ordered two 3,100-ton full rigged ships from Chantiers de Penhoët in Saint-Nazaire. The first ship, launched on 7 August 1902, was christened ""Laënnec"" after René Laennec, a French doctor and inventor of the stethoscope. On 18 September 1902 she was followed by the second ship, named ""Haudaudine"" after Pierre Haudaudine, which was lost off the coast of New"
"capable of about . On Sunday, 28 April 1912 the majority of the surviving crew of the RMS Titanic disaster disembarked here in secrecy. They were then taken by train from Millbay station to Southampton. There are currently two large deepwater docks, one of which is part-owned by Brittany Ferries, which has its UK headquarters here. Since 1973 the company has operated ferry services from the dock to Roscoff on the north coast of Brittany, France, and also to Santander on the north coast of Spain. Ferry services depart and arrive daily from March to late October, and less regularly"
"Belfast bound for Liverpool, her port of registration, on 31 May 1911. As a publicity stunt the White Star Line timed the start of this first voyage to coincide with the launch of ""Titanic"". After spending a day in Liverpool, open to the public, ""Olympic"" sailed to Southampton, where she arrived on 3 June, to be made ready for her maiden voyage. Her arrival generated enthusiasm from her crew and newspapers. The deep-water dock at Southampton, then known as the """"White Star Dock"""" had been specially constructed to accommodate the new ""Olympic""-class liners, and had opened in 1911. Her maiden"
"filled out. Even the North Atlantic knew the ships with the typical double funnel, which worked the route London – Dunkirk – Le Havre – Marseille. In the Middle East, the ports of call were Malta, Alexandria, Port Said, Beirut, Syria, Smyrna, Constantinople, and the Black Sea. In the Indian Ocean, the line served Mahé, Seychelles, La Réunion, Mauritius, Zanzibar and Madagascar as well as the French establishments in India. At Pondicherry the small harbour necessitated the use of ship's tenders. In 1932, caught fire on her maiden voyage and sank in the Gulf of Aden with the loss of"
"During September 1896 the station was again renamed to ""Southampton Town & Docks"", later changing to ""Southampton Town for Docks"" in November 1912 and finally being renamed to ""Southampton Terminus"" on 9 July 1923. In the early 1900s, Southampton Terminus saw increased traffic from locations such as Reading, Alton, London and Portsmouth; and by 1905 traffic from the Great Western Railway via the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway. Southampton Terminus is remembered for the many passengers of RMS Titanic who passed through it. Many of the ship's wealthy First Class passengers stayed in the South Western Hotel before they boarded"
"March 2016, and was delivered to Royal Caribbean on 12 May 2016. After a construction time of 32 months, the ship first set sail on 15 May 2016 from the STX France docks in Saint-Nazaire, viewed by some 70,000 people. Her first destination was Southampton, England, although her home port was Barcelona until 23 October 2016 when she crossed the Atlantic. ""Harmony of the Seas"" took two short ""preview cruises"", three nights to Cherbourg and four nights to Rotterdam, after reaching port in Southampton on 17 May. During these voyages, passengers complained of ongoing construction, a lack of hot water,"
"the Saint-Nazaire Chamber of Commerce, Louis Joubert, who had died in 1930. With the fall of France in 1940, the dock took on new strategic importance for the Germans, as it was the only dry dock on the West Coast of France capable of servicing the battleships ""Bismarck"" and ""Tirpitz"". The location gave access to the Atlantic Ocean, by-passing the Royal Navy's defensive lines organised along the GIUK gap. Of course, the battleships had to get there first. ""Bismarck"" broke into the Atlantic in 1941 but was damaged in the Battle of the Denmark Strait. She was heading for Saint-Nazaire"
"of US troops during the invasion of Normandy in 1944. Along with its use as a military, fishing and yachting port, it is also a cross-Channel ferry port, with routes to the English ports of Poole and Portsmouth, the Irish port of Rosslare Harbour and St Helier on Jersey. Limited by its geographical isolation from being a great commercial port, it is nonetheless an important shipbuilding centre, and a working-class city with a rural hinterland. On Wednesday, 10 April 1912 the RMS ""Titanic"" crossed the English Channel and docked here at 7:00pm local time before raising anchor at 9:10pm local"
"port of Saint-Nazaire. Although the French coast was further away than Bergen, Saint-Nazaire held the potential of longer nights and wider seas in which to shake off ""Bismarck""s shadowers, plus the possibility of luring them across a line of U-boats. It would leave ""Bismarck"" poised on the edge of the British trade routes once the damage were repaired; it also meant the potential support of the battleships and . Both ships had been stationed at Brest in France, since the end of Operation Berlin earlier that year but had been kept in port for repairs and overhaul. While Brest was"
"competitors. Following the merger of White Star Line and Cunard Line in 1934, ""Olympic"" was taken out of service in 1935, and scrapped between 1935 and 1937. Second in line of the ""Olympic"" class, ""Titanic"" was launched on 31 May 1911, and her commissioning was slightly delayed due to ongoing repairs of ""Olympic"". The ship left the port of Southampton 10 April 1912 for her maiden voyage, narrowly avoiding a collision with SS ""New York"", a ship moored in the port pulled by the propellers of ""Titanic"". After a stopover at Cherbourg, France and another in Queenstown, Ireland, she sailed"
"Navy's principal Mediterranean port of Toulon at the invitation of the French Royalist forces. By Smith's arrival in December 1793, the Revolutionary forces, including a colonel of artillery, Napoleon Bonaparte, had surrounded the port and were attacking it. The British and their allies had insufficient soldiers to mount an effective defence and so the port was evacuated. Smith, serving as a volunteer with no command, was given the task of burning as many French ships and stores as possible before the harbour could be captured. Despite his efforts, lack of support from the Spanish forces sent to help him left"
"which had opened in 1933 on the ""Quai de France"" next to the ""Cité de la Mer"". Frequently, cruise ships which have planned for another destination have taken refuge in the port, for protection from the frequent storms. Conventional cargo ships berth in the eastern area of the docks on the ""Quai des Flamands"" and ""Quai des Mielles"". During the construction of the Concorde prototypes in the 1960s, some sections built in the United Kingdom passed by ferry through Cherbourg, for transfer to Toulouse. The Paris - Cherbourg railway line, operated by Réseau Ferré de France, ends at Cherbourg railway"
"Eaton, the store owner's wife, had just travelled transatlantic on the liner and requested the style of the ""Ile de France"". SS Île de France The SS ""Île de France"" was a French ocean liner that was built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (or CGT, also known as the ""French Line""). The ship was christened in 1926, and commenced her maiden voyage on June 22, 1927. It was the first major ocean liner built after the conclusion of World War I, and was the first liner ever to be decorated almost entirely with modern designs associated with"
"in the Titanic tragedy and for the 121 Titanic victims buried at the cemetery, followed by a wreath-laying and musical performance the next day. The SeaCity Museum in Southampton, Hampshire opened on 10 April 2012, the date when RMS ""Titanic"" made her maiden voyage out of Southampton. It was designed to show Southampton's 2000 years of sea history, as well as commemorate the 549 city residents who sunk with the Titanic. To mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking, the BBC World Service broadcast, on 10 April 2012, a radio documentary in the ""Discovery"" series, entitled ""Titanic—In Her Own Words""."
"in 1897 and 1923, a third at Port-Bouët in 1931, and a fourth at Sassandra in 1951. Increasing traffic and the difficulty of handling large indivisible cargoes led to planning for the creation of a deep-water port. Beginning in 1892, Grand-Lahou, Grand-Bassam, Sassandra and Bingerville were all studied as possible locations. In 1898, a French mission including Charles François Maurice Houdaille, Captain Thomasset and Robert Wallace Crosson-Duplessis visited Ivory Coast to select the location for the port, which would also be the terminus of a projected railway (what became the Chemin de Fer Abidjan-Niger). Among the factors leading to their"
"RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS ""Titanic"" was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff"
"Mercantile Marine, which owned the White Star Line, and thus the Titanic. Morgan, who had attended the Titanic's launching in 1911, had a personal suite aboard the ship with his own private promenade deck and a bath equipped with specially designed cigar holders. He was reportedly booked on the ship's maiden voyage but instead canceled the trip and remained at the French resort of Aix-les-Bains to enjoy his morning massages and sulfur baths. His last-minute cancellation has fueled speculation among conspiracy theorists that he knew her fate. Another theory involves ""Titanic""s watertight doors. This theory suggests that if these doors"
"came through that ""Titanic"" had been lost and that most of her passengers and crew had died. The news attracted crowds of people to the White Star Line's offices in London, New York, Montreal, Southampton, Liverpool and Belfast. It hit hardest in Southampton, whose people suffered the greatest losses from the sinking. Four out of every five crew members came from this town. ""Carpathia"" docked at 9:30 p.m. on 18 April at New York's Pier 54 and was greeted by some 40,000 people waiting at the quayside in heavy rain. Immediate relief in the form of clothing and transportation to"
"Port of Le Havre The Port of Le Havre is the Port and port authority of the French city of Le Havre. It is the second-largest commercial port in France in terms of overall tonnage, and the largest container port, with three sets of terminals. It can accommodate all sizes of world cruise liners, and a major new marina is being planned. Le Havre is linked to Portsmouth, England, by Brittany Ferries. The port consists of a series of canal-like docks, the Canal de Tancarville and the Grand Canal du Havre, that connect Le Havre to the Seine, close to"
"third largest French slave trade port after Nantes and La Rochelle. Maritime trade however is subject to international relations and a European context: the wars of Louis XIV and Louis XV momentarily interrupted the development of Le Havre. The Anglo-Dutch bombarded the city several times, notably in 1694 and in 1696. In 1707 Michel Dubocage, a Captain from Le Havre, explored the Pacific Ocean aboard the ""Discovery"" and reached the Clipperton Island. Upon his return to Le Havre, he made his fortune by setting up a trading house and bought a mansion (now a Museum) in the heart of the"
"the SS ""Liberté,"" given to France by the United States of America in compensation for the loss of the ""Normandie"" in New York. Louis Joubert Lock The Louis Joubert Lock () also known as the Normandie Dock, is a lock and major dry dock located in the port of Saint-Nazaire in Loire-Atlantique, northwestern France. Owned by the Port authority of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire and not by the ship building company Chantiers de l'Atlantique, its strategic importance as a major naval construction and maintenance asset since its completion in 1934 resulted in it becoming the main target of the British Army Commando raid"
"April, the ""Titanic"" Engineers' Memorial was dedicated in front of 100,000 people. On 27 July 1915, a small memorial fountain made of Portland stone commemorating all of the lost crew members was unveiled on Southampton Common. It became the target of vandalism and was moved into the ruined Holyrood Church in 1972. A memorial to the British postal staff aboard Titanic was located in the Southampton Docks Post Office, then moved to the High Street Post Office, and is now on display outside the Council Chambers at the City's Guildhall. The ship's mainly Italian and French restaurant workers and their"
"Toulon arsenal The military port of Toulon (French - ""arsenal de Toulon"") is the principal base of the French Navy and the first naval base in Europe by size, sited in the city of Toulon. It holds most of France's force d'action navale, comprising the aircraft carrier ""Charles de Gaulle"" as well as its nuclear attack submarines, in total more than 70% of the tonnage of the French Navy. About 20,000 military and civilians work at the base The word ""rade"" comes from the old English term 'Road,' ""a protected place near shore, not so enclosed as a harbour, where"