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It's noon on April 10th, 1912, aboard the RMS Titanic in the port city of Southampton, England.

Captain Edward J. Smith gives the order for the world's largest passenger ship to depart on her maiden voyage.

Her horns can be heard all across the city. Smith looks on as tugboats ease the ship into the channel. He grins as the band on board strikes up a tune to the cheers of the crowd gathered

down the docks. Once the tugboats clear the way, Captain Smith orders slow ahead.

And the Titanic's engines roar to life.

As the ship pushes further into the channel under its own power,

Captain Smith suddenly hears a strange sound,

almost like gunshots echoing in the air.

He looks on in horror as an empty ship docked in the channel, the SS

New York, breaks from its moorings and drifts towards the Titanic. The cheers from the crowd

turned to screams as the two ships head for a collision. Smith barks orders to his crew, hoping

to stop an impending disaster. He instructs an officer to call out

to one of the tugboats for aid. Smith watches as the tugboat captain pushes his vessel to full

speed. Smith holds his breath as the crew of the tugboat cast over a line to the FS New York

with the aid of another tugboat pulled the drifting vessel away from Titanic's path.

The crowd's panic turns again to cheers as the Titanic narrowly avoids colliding with the SS

New York. Smith's ship is safe, but now he's an hour behind schedule. Still with the crisis

averted, the passenger ship can finally begin its voyage across

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