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Into History.

com. It's March 1st, 1854 in Liverpool, England.

Footman Angus Macmaster carries a heavy wooden trunk through the city docks.

Around him, hundreds of sailors and laborers hurriedly load and unload ships.

There's cargo here from all over the world, coffee, rum, spices, and tobacco.

Some of the worker's faces are even stained blue from

handling indigo. But the trunk Angus halls doesn't contain anything so exotic or

valuable. It's packed with neatly folded clothes belonging to Angus's employer,

Captain Kenneth Morrison, a man Angus is reluctant to meet.

A few weeks ago, Captain Morrison was appointed to command a four-year-old transatlantic steam ship, the city of Glasgow.

As Captain Morrison's footman, Angus is expected to serve on the ship too.

But for the last three nights he's had a recurring

nightmare in which his dead father warned him not to board the city of Glasgow or

disaster will strike. Now Angus is conflicted. As he trudges toward the steamship's birth, he's still undecided whether to keep his job or listen to his father's ghostly warning.

Angus mutters a short prayer to himself as he passes the church of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors and say voyages.

Beyond the church is the SS city of Glasgow.

The iron-hulled ship is just over 225 feet long.

Smoke billows out of its single black funnel

as the last passengers impatiently jostle up the gangplank under the supervision of Captain Morrison's

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