Around 1,500 people died with most of those lost buried at sea or repatriated to Canada.
However, a church in Long Ditton is home to one of only two known Titanic victim graves in the UK.
Alison Baverstock, Curate at St Mary’s Church, takes up the story.
A public discussion on the area’s links to Titanic will take place at the Church at 8 o’clock tonight.