Tank 1 looks out over the Pacific. It covers 360,000 square feet, holds 17 million gallons, runs from 3.5 to 40 feet deep, and fills or empties in 40 hours.
Filming moved here from Nova Scotia in September 1996 and wrapped on 23 March 1997. Fox sold the studio in 2007; it still works as Baja Studios. Foxploration, a studio tour that opened in 2001, has closed.
A working film studio on the coast road south of Rosarito, beside the fishing village of Popotla. There are no tours; see the walls from the road.
Where we read it
Pier 35, San Francisco · 785 km north
The engine room is in San Francisco.
The film’s engine room is the triple-expansion engine of the SS Jeremiah O’Brien. The ship was launched in 1943, made four round trips across the Atlantic in convoy, and sailed with the D-Day fleet in 1944.
Ring the telegraph
Engines stopped.
Open every day, 10am to 4pm. Tickets at the booth on the day: $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 juniors, $45 a family.
Where we read it
The triple-expansion engine of SS Jeremiah O'Brien in 2008. BrokenSphere · CC BY 3.0
SS Jeremiah O'Brien at Pier 35, San Francisco, in 2024. ArnoldReinhold · CC BY 4.0
Belfast · Queen’s Island
Drawn here.
In the film Jack draws Rose; the hand that drew it was James Cameron’s. The ship herself was drawn in Belfast, beside the slipway where she was launched.
Where we read it
Cameron drew the portrait of Rose that appears in the film.
Titanic Belfast stands beside the Titanic Slipways, the Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices and the Hamilton Graving Dock, where the ship was designed, built and launched.
Harland and Wolff launched Titanic in Belfast at 12.15pm on 31 May 1911.
The yard: in pencil.
Where we read it
Adults £24.95, children 5–15 £11, a family £62. Last entry is 1 hour 40 minutes before closing; hours change with the season. Included in a Titanic Belfast ticket; she sits in her dock a short way down Queen’s Road. Nomadic is about 200 metres from the main building.
Titanic Hotel Belfast
Titanic Hotel Belfast
Queen’s Road, Titanic Quarter, Belfast
A four-star hotel in the restored Harland & Wolff drawing offices, little changed since Titanic was designed in them. Next door to Titanic Belfast.
Titanic leaves on her maiden voyage. Most of the crew signed on here.
Today
SeaCity Museum
Southampton, 10 April 1912. Tear the stub to see what stands there now.
The Titanic Engineers' Memorial in East Park, Southampton, in 2024. Acediscovery · CC BY-SA 4.0
Southampton · East Park
The engineers
None of the ship’s 35 engineers and electricians survived. The memorial was unveiled on 22 April 1914. An estimated 100,000 people came to the park.
Ferdinand Victor Blundstone was the sculptor. The memorial is Grade II listed.
In a public park beside Above Bar Street, a few minutes from SeaCity Museum.
Where we read it
The Titanic Story gallery at SeaCity Museum in 2025. Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Titanic Story gallery tells how the disaster struck the city and the people of Southampton.
Where we read it
The Grand Staircase · 14 to 15 April 1912
Honour and Glory Crowning Time.
At the top of the Grand Staircase a clock was set in carved panelling, with figures of Honour and Glory on either side. Move its hands through the night.
11.40pm
Titanic strikes the iceberg, on 14 April 1912.
Where we read it
11.40pm: Titanic strikes the iceberg, on 14 April 1912.
The Honour and Glory Crowning Time clock on the Grand Staircase of Olympic, Titanic's sister ship, photographed in 1911. William H. Rau · Public domain
The staircase, rebuilt
Built again: wider, then full size.
For the film the staircase was built 30% wider than the original and braced with steel. In Tennessee and Missouri it has been built again at full scale.
Where we read it
The film’s Grand Staircase set was scaled 30% wider than the original and reinforced with steel framing.
The Grand Staircase replica at the Titanic Museum Attraction, Pigeon Forge. CMASSIE · CC BY-SA 4.0
Titanic Museum Attraction, Pigeon Forge
Full-scale recreations, the Grand Staircase among them, alongside real artefacts.
Hours and tickets are on the attraction’s own booking page.
Where we read itThe Titanic Museum Attraction in Branson, Missouri, at night in 2016. Roland Arhelger · CC BY-SA 4.0
Titanic Museum Attraction, Branson
The Branson attraction has the same full-scale recreations, including the Grand Staircase, and real artefacts. A new Titanic lifeboat display has been added here.
Hours and tickets are on the attraction’s own booking page.
Where we read it
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The graves.
Rows of Titanic graves at Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax. Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0
150 of Titanic’s dead are buried in Halifax: 121 at Fairview Lawn, 19 at Mount Olivet and 10 at Baron de Hirsch.
The headstones are set out in the shape of a ship. Each carries the number given to the body when it was recovered; the unknown are marked “Died April 15, 1912”.
On the centenary, 15 April 2012, a candlelight procession and an interfaith service were held here, with flares at the hour the ship sank.
A working cemetery in the Fairview district of Halifax. These are graves: please visit quietly.
Where we read it
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic on the Halifax waterfront. Phobophile · CC BY-SA 3.0
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Its collection includes a Titanic deck chair, given to a minister who held services on a recovery ship. It also shows the shoes of an unknown child, later identified by DNA as Sidney Leslie Goodwin.
On the Halifax waterfront. Check hours on the Nova Scotia Museum site before you go. It is 4 km from Fairview Lawn.
Where we read it
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Halifax Titanic tours
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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1 Sep 1995Wreck filming begins: 12 dives that year
31 Jul 1996Shooting starts in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, aboard the Keldysh
Sep 1996To Rosarito
23 Mar 1997Filming wraps
1 Nov 1997Premiere in Tokyo
19 Dec 1997Released in the US
Gloria Stuart played the older Rose and Billy Zane played Cal. The film had fourteen Academy Award nominations and won eleven.
Where we read it
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, Gloria Stuart as the older Rose, Billy Zane as Cal Hockley; written and directed by James Cameron.
Wreck footage from 1 September 1995, 12 dives in 1995; principal photography from 31 July 1996 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, aboard the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh; to Rosarito in September 1996; wrapped 23 March 1997; Tokyo premiere 1 November 1997; US release 19 December 1997; 14 nominations, 11 Oscars.
12 places you can visit, from Rosarito to Halifax. Baja Studios is a working studio: you see it from the road. The wreck itself is not on this map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working film studio on the coast road south of Rosarito, beside the fishing village of Popotla. There are no tours; see the walls from the road.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open every day, 10am to 4pm. Tickets at the booth on the day: $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 juniors, $45 a family.
Dates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
The passenger list
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
12 of 12 places · 11 of 11 Moments
Baja Studios
Carretera Tijuana–Ensenada, Popotla, Playas de Rosarito, Baja California
The ship in the tank
A 775-foot replica of Titanic is built in a new tank on the Pacific shore; filming moves here in September 1996.
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
North end of Pier 35, The Embarcadero, San Francisco
The engine room
The Jeremiah O’Brien’s triple-expansion engine plays Titanic’s engines.
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