where did the titanic set sail from on its maiden voyage
Southampton
title: Titanic (1953 film) text: Titanic (1953 film) Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco. Its plot centers on an estranged couple sailing on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the , which took place in April 1912. The film was released a day after the 41st anniversary of the sinking of the ocean liner. At the last minute, a wealthy American expatriate in Europe, Richard Sturges (Clifton Webb), buys a steerage-class ticket (the lowest class) for the maiden voyage of the RMS "Titanic" from a Basque immigrant. Once aboard he seeks out his runaway wife, Julia (Barbara Stanwyck). He discovers she title: RMS Majestic (1914) text: next day (10 April) at 9.00 a.m. As a curiosity, exactly ten years earlier, the RMS Titanic left Southampton at the same day, three hours later on her maiden voyage. "Majestic" was placed on the North Atlantic run from Southampton to New York in tandem with and . She sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton on Wednesday, 11 May 1922 at 11.30 am under the command of Sir Bertram Hayes. She reached New York in 5 days, 14 hours and 45 minutes at an average speed of . When she docked in New York, she was so large that title: RMS Titanic text: and make a port of call on the northern coast of France, usually at Cherbourg. This allowed British ships to pick up clientele from continental Europe before recrossing the channel and picking up passengers at Queenstown. The "Southampton-Cherbourg-New York run" would become so popular that most British ocean liners began using the port after World War I. Out of respect for Liverpool, ships continued to be registered there until the early 1960s. "Queen Elizabeth 2" was one of the first ships registered in Southampton when introduced into service by Cunard in 1969. "Titanic"'s maiden voyage was intended to be the title: Olympic-class ocean liner text: competitors. Following the merger of White Star Line and Cunard Line in 1934, "Olympic" was taken out of service in 1935, and scrapped between 1935 and 1937. Second in line of the "Olympic" class, "Titanic" was launched on 31 May 1911, and her commissioning was slightly delayed due to ongoing repairs of "Olympic". The ship left the port of Southampton 10 April 1912 for her maiden voyage, narrowly avoiding a collision with SS "New York", a ship moored in the port pulled by the propellers of "Titanic". After a stopover at Cherbourg, France and another in Queenstown, Ireland, she sailed title: RMS Titanic text: to convey passengers to Southampton and Cherbourg respectively. The deep-water dock at Southampton, then known as the ""White Star Dock", had been specially constructed to accommodate the new "Olympic"-class liners, and had opened in 1911. "Titanic" had around 885 crew members on board for her maiden voyage. Like other vessels of her time, she did not have a permanent crew, and the vast majority of crew members were casual workers who only came aboard the ship a few hours before she sailed from Southampton. The process of signing up recruits had begun on 23 March and some had been sent