The ship’s builders even made claims that it should stay afloat for a minimum of 2-3 days if tragedy struck. Despite the builders’ claims that-even under the worst possible conditions at sea-she was unsinkable, it took less than three hours for the Titanic to sink. Of the 2200 passengers and crew that were aboard, only 705 survived. Titanic was on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, United States when it collided with a massive iceberg. On the 14th of April in the year 1912, the R.M.S.