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Edward John Smith RD RNR (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was a British sea captain and naval officer. In 1880, he joined the White Star Line as an officer, beginning a long career in the British Merchant Navy .
Captain Edward J. Smith assembled a crew that included Henry Wilde as Chief Officer, Murdoch as First Officer, and Chief Purser Hugh McElroy. On 14 June 1911 Olympic departed on her maiden voyage to New York, with a planned arrival on 21 June. On 20 September 1911, the Olympic collided with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke, badly damaging her ...
The captain of the Titanic, Edward Smith. The crew assigned to command the ship consisted of eight navigation officers. Captain Edward John Smith, in command of Titanic, and his second-in-command Henry Wilde supervised a team of six navigation officers, [17] who were responsible for navigating the ship according to their watch.
Edward Smith (sea captain) (1850–1912), captain of the RMS Titanic when she sank; Edward Smith (thief), committed one of the first bank robberies in the United States; Edward B. Smith, founder of Edward B. Smith & Co., became brokerage firm Smith Barney; Edward Parmelee Smith (1827–1876), Congregational minister in Massachusetts
Titanic ' s Captain Edward Smith had shown an "indifference to danger [that] was one of the direct and contributing causes of this unnecessary tragedy." The lack of lifeboats was the fault of the British Board of Trade, "to whose laxity of regulation and hasty inspection the world is largely indebted for this awful tragedy."
Captain Edward Smith (1850–1912) of the RMS Titanic; Captain John Smith of Jamestown (1580–1631) Captain Roy Campbell Smith (1858–1940), Governor of Guam
Captain Edward John Smith – held the rank of commander within the RNR. He was captain of the White Star Line ships RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, among others. Captain Ronald Niel Stuart – Holder of US Navy Cross, Commodore Canadian Pacific Steamships [25] Sir Ernest Shackleton – Lieutenant RNR, master mariner, explorer
Captain Edward Smith died in the Titanic disaster. "The captain goes down with the ship" is a maritime tradition that a sea captain holds the ultimate responsibility for both the ship and everyone embarked on it, and in an emergency they will devote their time to save those on board or die trying.