"Lusitania", commanded by Commodore James Watt, moored at the Liverpool landing stage for her maiden voyage at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday 7 September 1907 as the onetime Blue Riband holder vacated the pier. At the time "Lusitania" was the largest ocean liner in service and would continue to be until the introduction of "Mauretania" in November that year. A crowd of 200,000 people gathered to see her departure at 9:00 p.m. for Queenstown (renamed Cobh in 1920), where she was to take on more passengers. She anchored again at Roche's Point, off Queenstown, at 9:20 a.m. the following morning, where she was shortly joined by "Lucania", which she had passed in the night, and 120 passengers were brought out to the ship by tender bringing her total of passengers to 2,320.