Edward Smith
Edward Smith
Captain of the famous RMS Titanic. He and more than 1,500 passengers and crew members went down with the ship after it collided with an iceberg during its 1912 maiden voyage.
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth27 January 1850
CityStaffordshire, England
safety ships causes
I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .
years sea safety
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.
soccer sports football
Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.
running sea two
The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.
texas long-ago useless
Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."