“Women and children first”

Captain Edward J Smith (1850-1912) was one of the White Star Line’s most experienced captains. Aged 17 he travelled to Liverpool to begin his apprenticeship on the ship Senator Webber before he joined White Star as a Fourth Officer in 1880. He quickly rose through the ranks and seven years later was given his first command. Smith became commodore of the White Star fleet in 1904, after which it became routine for him to command the line’s newest ships on their maiden voyages and it is said that he gained such a reputation as a captain that some passengers would only travel on ships where he was in command. However, this is not to say that he had not had previous incidents; in 1911 while captaining of the Olympic, the…

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