The _Titanic_, fresh from the builder's hands, sailed from Southampton, Wednesday, April 10, 1912. She reached Cherbourg on the afternoon of the same day, and Queenstown, Ireland, at noon on Thursday. After embarking the mails and passengers, she left for New York, having on board 1,324 passengers and a ship's complement of officers and crew of 899 persons. The passenger list showed that there were 329 first-class, 285 second-class, and 710 third-class passengers. The weather throughout the voyage was clear and the sea calm. At noon on the third day out, a wireless message was received from the _Baltic_, dated Sunday, April 14, which read: "Greek steamship _Athinai_ reports passing icebergs and large quantity of field ice to-day in latitude 41.51 north, longitude 49.52 west." At about 7 P.M. a second warning was received by the _Titanic_, this time from the _Californian_, which reported ice about 19 miles to the northward of the track on which the _Titanic_ was steaming. The message read: "Latitude 42.3 north, longitude 49.9 west. Three large bergs five miles to southward of us." Later there was a third message: "_Amerika_ passed two large icebergs in 41.27 north, 50.8 west on the 14th of April." A fourth message, sent by the _Californian_, reached the ship about an hour before the accident occurred, or about 10.40 o'clock, which said: "We are stopped and surrounded by ice." [Illustration: Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE TITANIC, TAKEN AS SHE WAS LEAVING SOUTHAMPTON ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE] These wireless warnings prove that the captain of the _Titanic_ knew there was ice to the north, to the south, and immediately ahead of the southerly steamship route on which he was steaming. The evidence shows that Captain Smith remarked to the officer doing duty on the bridge, "If it is in a slight degree hazy we shall have to go very slowly." The officer of the watch instructed the lookouts to "keep a sharp lookout for ice." The night was starlit and the weather exceptionally clear.