The passenger ship that sank due to iceberg damage in 1912 was the RMS Titanic. The Titanic was on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City when it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 14, 1912. The ship sank in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, taking more than 1,500 of its 2,224 passengers and crew to the bottom of the ocean.