Titanic’s maiden voyage
On 10 April 1912 Titanic left Southampton, called at Cherbourg and Queenstown, and on the 11th headed out into the Atlantic for New York with some 2,200 people aboard.
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Leaving Southampton at noon on 10 April, Titanic’s wash pulled the moored liner New York toward her, narrowly avoiding a collision. She called at Cherbourg in France that evening and at Queenstown in Ireland the next day, then set out into the Atlantic on the afternoon of the 11th.
Aboard were some 2,200 people, from millionaires in first class to emigrants leaving Europe for America in third. Her captain, Edward Smith, was due to retire after the voyage. She followed the spring track that turned toward New York at “the Corner”, 42° N 47° W.
