Shortly after 12 noon on the 10th of April 1912, the note from her whistle bold and optimistic

RMS Titanic cast off from Southampton dock on England's South Coast.

Toad out into the river test by tugboats, she set off on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic

Ocean to New York via Shereborg France and Queenstown in Ireland.

Hundreds of passengers and crew on board gather at the front of the ship, the bow, while

hundreds more swarm hurriedly across the deck, desperate to secure a view.

Couples embrace with outstretched arms.

Children, a sat on the shoulders of their parents, hats a brandished and sea of hands wave

ecstatically as goodbyes it's shared to crowds of awe-filled family, friends and well-wishes on land.

The propellers rotate below the surface. Above the water, the vastness of this mighty ship is

breathtaking, a luxurious ocean liner which dwarfs its flanking tugboats.

Reporters capture photos, the crowds and people all over the world, expected waiting

for the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic. As the ship's engines enable her to glide through the

water, the passengers chorus begins to fade. Unknown at the time, for many of their loved ones,

tragically, it would be the final farewell.

Audio of this iconic scene of the ship leaving the port is, of course, taken from James Cameron's

1997 classic Titanic. Cameron based his movie on accounts of the ship sinking from survivors

collected in the decades after. The movie was a global phenomenon that captured the hearts of

millions across the globe. From a teenage dance snow who watched it in a movie theatre and

Strathclyde to masses of Chinese moviegoers and afghans sheltering from the Taliban in Kabul.

But even before the movie, adults and children alike have always been enraptured by the story

of this luxury cruise liner. The largest of its kind, full of grandeur, the most sophisticated

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