Captain Dan wrote:
Given some of the events leading up to Titanic's launch, it was probably good that it was the Titanic and not the Olympic; she was not at full capacity on her maiden voyage (don't know if the Olympic was or was not, but there was a lengthy coal strike going on at the time, which disrupted schedules and though it ended on April 6th, only 922 passengers were aboard when she left Southhampton, picking up more at Cherbourg and Queenstown to bring the total to 1316, barely half of Titanic's capacity.