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April 10, 1912, Wednesday: Just before noon, the Blue Peter pennant, indicating 'Imminent Departure', was run up Titanic's foremast. The Trinity House Pilot, George Bowyer, was already aboard, a familiar face to Captain Edward J. Smith and most of the officers. It was Pilot Bowyer who had been on duty the day that RMS Olympic had collided with HMS Hawke, and Smith had been the Master that day too. Just after 12:00pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), the whistles on the first two funnels sounded and Tit