After earning his master's ticket, he entered the service of the White Star Line, a prestigious British company. Raised in a working class environment, he left school early to join the merchant navy and the Royal Naval Reserve. He was the captain of the RMS Titanic, and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage. He served as master of numerous White Star Line vessels. He also held the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy Reserve.Įdward John Smith RD RNR (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was a British naval officer. We publish today a photograph of the steward who took the baby from Captain Smiths arms.Smith received the honorific rank of commodore, as the White Star Line's most senior captain. I also had picked up a baby, but it died from the cold before I could reach the boat." "He swam to a boat, put the baby in, and then swam back to the ship.
He was swimming with a baby in his arms, raising it out of the water as he swam on his back. "As I was swimming to the boat I saw the Captain in the water. When the Captains order came Senior dived over the side. "It is a dirty lie to say that such a man as he shot himself". He was pacing up and down sending up rockets and giving orders. I had noticed him on the bridge before that. "The ship was pretty near sinking then, and the captain shouted, 'Each man for himself'. Williams story is borne out by Harry Senior, a fireman of the Titanic who arrived on the Lapland on Sunday. Murdoch shot himself: we give the whole account as it appeared in the New York World. It may be stated that there is no official confirmation that Mr. Then Captain Smith pushed himself away from the lifeboat, threw his lifebelt from him and slowly sank from sight. We told him Murdoch had blown his brains out with a revolver.
"He did ask what had become of First Officer Murdoch. When the small boat went to his rescue Captain Smith handed them the child, but refused to get in himself. He say that he saw Captain Smith swimming around in the icy water with an infant in his arms and a lifebelt. He was in the icy water for over two hours before he was finally hauled into one of the lifeboats. Standing, "and went overboard with a life preserver when he couldn't stay on deck any longer. Standing, and the latter gave the New York World reported the account as told to him by Mr. The story is told by Charles Williams, coach of the Harrow Racquet Club, who was one of those saved from the Titanic. His last act was to save the life of a child. Many eyewitnesses have testified to seeing the captain on the bridge as the great liner was engulfed, and others say they saw the officer dive from the bridge just before the ship sank, but according to an interview published in the New York World Captain Smith died the greatest of all deaths. It was proved that Captain Smith died like a sailor, but the exact manner of his death was not described. Of all the wild and irresponsible messages that were sent to this country in the first hours following the sinking of the Titanic the one that caused the grief to Englishmen was the statement that Captain Smith had committed suicide on the bridge of his ship.
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