The RMS Titanic sunk during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to which American city?

The story behind the answer

New York City is correct because the RMS Titanic’s maiden voyage was a transatlantic crossing on the White Star Line’s premier route from Southampton to New York, with brief stops at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland. She was scheduled to dock at New York’s Pier 59.

Launched in 1912 as a symbol of luxury and modern engineering, Titanic struck an iceberg on April 14 and sank early April 15 in the North Atlantic, with over 1,500 lives lost. Survivors were brought to New York by the RMS Carpathia, which docked at Pier 54. Memory tip: the “new” ship was headed to New York—think “New ship, New York.”