The former White Star Line Offices in Liverpool, designed by the architect Norman Shaw, is recognised as an important Titanic related site. The offices are based on Shaw's earlier design for Scotland Yard in London. There are two City of Liverpool plaques around the doorway, commemorating the building as the "Former White Star Building" and as "The Headquarters of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company".

Liverpool commemorated the engineers, most noticeably at St Nicholas Place at the Pier Head, overlooked by the Liver Building. It was said at the time that the "Titanic Engineers [memorial] should be a national one, and there is in contemplation a river-side scheme that would surpass, in architectural beauty, the Statue of Liberty at New York". Designed by the sculptor Sir William Goscombe John R.A. and built at a cost of £4,500 it was unveiled on 6th May 1916. The inscription on the memorial reads "In Honour of All Heroes of the Marine Engine Room. This memorial was erected by international subscription. MCMXVI."

Not too far away is the Merseyside Maritime Museum which holds a model of the Titanic. The model originally started life as the Olympic, but was altered to represent the Titanic. After her tragic loss in 1912 she was altered to represent the third sister ship, the Britannic, then being built at Harland and Wolff's shipyard in Belfast. She was lost on 21st November 1916 after she struck a mine in the Aegean Sea. The model, was then changed back to represent the Olympic. The model was restored before taking pride of place in the Maritime Museum.

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