Boxhall made a quick inspection of the ship and returned to the bridge to report that he had found no damage. The Damage ReportsĪt first it appeared as if Smith’s luck was going to hold. Smith’s body was never recovered, and his final moments remain a mystery, with no shortage of conflicting accounts-including one in which he jumped off the ship holding a baby.Īs author Wyn Craig Wade wrote in The Titanic: End of a Dream, “Captain Smith had at least five different deaths, from heroic to ignominious.” Rumors of his survival also circulated. In a matter of hours, more than 1,500 passengers and crew would be dead, including Smith himself. Now he was about to preside over one of the worst sea disasters of all time. In more than 40 years at sea he had rarely been involved in an accident and never held accountable for one. So began the worst night of Edward John Smith’s otherwise charmed life. But witnesses said he appeared on the bridge of the Titanic just moments later, asking what the storied ship, making its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, had struck.Īn iceberg, sir. Did the captain die an honorable death along with his crew members or did he fled throwing away his responsibilities as a captain of ‘The Titanic’? On the day of the incident Smith’s body was never discovered and his final moments remain a mystery, reports History in a recent post on their website. Smith was the captain of the infamous ship ‘The Titanic’.
At least five of the Titanic’s 16 watertight compartments was flooded.Even after 40 years at sea without any casualties for Smith, the death count was over 1500 on the night of 14th April.
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