Smith gave orders to uncover the lifeboats and alert the passengers. Several estimated it was no more than five miles away.Īt 12:05 a.m. Soon after the collision, he and other officers saw what they believed to be the lights of a nearby ship. The captain still had some hope of averting total disaster. He also knew that its 20 lifeboats, with a total capacity of 1,178, couldn’t begin to accommodate the more than 2,200 passengers and crew members aboard. At roughly midnight, Andrews reportedly told Smith the Titanic could last another 60 to 90 minutes. While the ship could have stayed afloat with up to four flooded compartments, depending on their location, five tipped into catastrophic territory.
Thomas Andrews, the Titanic’s head designer, reported that his inspection revealed flooding in at least five of the Titanic’s 16 watertight compartments. But whatever relief Smith might have felt at that moment was quickly shattered. Boxhall made a quick inspection of the ship and returned to the bridge to report that he had found no damage. 1911.Īt first it appeared as if Smith’s luck was going to hold. Yvette Davids to be First Woman to Lead Naval Academy - Walrus Neat on Navy Nominates Rear Adm.Captain of White Star Liner, RMS Titanic, Commander Edward J. ws on Update: “Unprecedented” Sea Level Rise Defies North Carolina Legislation.Kirsten Neuschäfer Wins 2022 Golden Globe - First Woman to Win a Solo Round the World Race - Walrus Neat on Kirsten Neuschäfer Wins 2022 Golden Globe - First Woman to Win a Solo Round the World Race.Jean-Pierre Declemy on Kirsten Neuschäfer Wins 2022 Golden Globe - First Woman to Win a Solo Round the World Race.Harry Belafonte and the Port Chicago Disaster & Mutiny - Walrus Neat on Harry Belafonte and the Port Chicago Disaster & Mutiny.Doug Bostrom on Investigation : Channel Distress Calls Ignored 19 Times Before 2021 Disaster.I think only a handful have emerged over the last 15 years so there is a great deal of interest in this.’ ‘First person accounts written on Carpathia headed notepaper are incredibly rare. ‘Captain Smith was largely exonerated by the British enquiry into the disaster and there are numerous accounts of him dying an Englishman’s death by chosing to go down with the ship. It puts a very different perspective on the events if it is true.
‘It is very controversial but you can’t ignore the fact she was there. ‘So Emily Richards’s account is not consistent with the dozens of others that exist. ‘As far as we know there are no other witness reports that put the captain in the saloon drinking on the evening of the sinking. ‘She would have wanted someone to blame and clearly she blamed the captain. Was the captain of the Titanic drunk on the night the ship struck an iceberg? Letter written by survivor claims skipper was in saloon bar before liner sankĪuctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: ‘This was a woman whose emotions would have been incredibly raw having lost a loved one in the sinking. ‘It was the Captan(sic) fault. ‘My poor brother George … drowned as far as we know now.’Ĭaptain Smith who went down with the ship, was exonerated by by the British enquiry into the disaster and not all believe Ms. ‘The Captain was down in the saloon drinking and gave charge to some-one else to stare(sic) the ship. The letter written on board the Carpathia, which rescued survivors from the sinking, blames the captain for the sinking:
The letter, which was owned by a collector in Long Island, NY will be returning Belfast to be part of a new Titanic exhibition.Ī second, somewhat controversial, letter was written by Titanic survivor, Emily Richards, a second class passenger, who claims to have seen Captain Smith a drinking few hours before the collision. John Edward Simpson, who died when the ship sank, He wrote to his mother on April 11, 1912, on notepaper headed RMS Titanic, and had it mailed from Cohb, Ireland, the last port of call prior to the ship sailing across the North Atlantic. Two letters from the Titanic are in the news.
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