Titanic Tour in Southampton (Self Guided), Southampton

Over a hundred years since the sinking of Titanic, the echo of that tragedy still reverberates throughout Southampton. Indeed, nowhere else was the pain of the Titanic disaster, one of the deadliest in maritime history, felt more intensely than here. The majority of Titanic's 900-strong crew were from Southampton, of whom only a handful returned home. More than 500 local households overnight lost a family member – usually a sole breadwinner – as the ill-fated ship hit an iceberg and foundered with 1,500+ people onboard on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on April 15th 1912.

A century on, throughout the city there are plenty of individual and group memorials to the victims, as well as buildings intimately linked to the events of April 1912. These include places where crew members and passengers spent their last days prior to the fateful voyage, each of them oblivious to the cruel ending ahead. Among such places are:

The SeaCity Museum – opened in 2012 to mark the centenary of the RMS Titanic's departure from Southampton;

Titanic Musician's and Engineers' Memorials – respectively commemorating those who died in the Titanic disaster;

St. Joseph's Catholic Church – houses the memorial dedicated to the staff of the Ritz, one of the restaurants serving Titanic;

South Western House – in 1912, many first-class passengers stayed here the night before the ship sailed;

Canute Chambers – the former company office of White Star Line, the owner and operator of Titanic;

The Grapes Public House – a pub near Dock Gate 4 where Titanic was moored; many of the crew's firemen and trimmers met here for a final drink before sailing.

To learn more about Titanic and its association with Southampton, embark on this self-guided walking tour.