~In 1912, the Titanic, a steamship in England's White Star Line, set out on its doomed maiden voyage, with 2,227 enthusiastic passengers and crew members on board for the history-making trip from Southampton, England, to New York City. Only 705 would survive the ship's collision with a massive iceberg.The "unsinkable" ocean liner hit an iceberg late in the evening on April 14 and sunk in the early hours of April 15.