MAIDEN VOYAGE

April 10, 1912 Wed. in Southampton, England (sailing day) passengers came at the White Star docks and board the Titanic between 9:30am- 11:30am, Titanic casts off to leave for her first voyage at noon sharp.  She was pulled by 6 tugboats into the channel of the river test.  Under her own power, she went by 2 smaller ships on her left.  The ships were White Star’s Oceanic and the American Line’s New York.  The two ships were warped together on the outside with the New York. 
 As the Titanic steamed past at six knots the  lines that moored the New York, free of her mooring, began to float toward the much larger ship, Titanic.  Disaster was averted when the tugboat, the Vulcan, rushed to the New York’s side and passed a line to her stern, slowing her drift toward the Titanic.  And at the same time Captain Smith increased power to his port engine, causing a wave that helped push the New York clear.