![]() 'The Captain was down in the saloon drinking and gave charge to some-one else to stare(sic) the ship. ![]() In the letter, sent to her mother-in-law, Mrs Richards, from Penzance, Cornwall, wrote: 'The boat struck a iceberg at 11 o'clock on Sunday night. Mrs Richards, 24, and her two sons were rescued after making it on to the lifeboats, but her brother, George, was among the 1,522 people who perished in the Atlantic's icy waters. The second class passenger made the allegation in a letter she wrote home from on board the Carpathia, which picked up survivors from the Titanic, two days after the liner sank. History books record that the white-whiskered skipper was woken in his cabin when the ship struck the iceberg and bravely decided to go down with his ship.īut a previously unseen account by survivor Emily Richards blames Captain Smith for the tragedy and says he was drinking hours before the collision. The captain of the Titanic was drunk when the liner hit an iceberg and sank, a newly unearthed document alleges.Ĭaptain Edward Smith was apparently seen drinking in the saloon bar of the doomed ship in the run-up to the catastrophic collision. What next? Discover some facts about the Titanic.Drunk? Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic, was exonerated by the inquiry into the disaster, but a newly unearthed account alleges he was inebriated Captain Smith was 62 when he died in 1912.Bernard Hill took on the role of Captain smith in the 1997 movie Titanic directed by James Cameron. According to Smith’s daughter, Helen Melville (Mel), Laurence Naismith, the actor who played Smith in A Night to Remember, looked very much like her father. He has been portrayed by many different actors over the years.A statue of Captain Smith stands in Beacon Park, Lichfield.Legend has it that the final words to his crew were ‘Be British’, but this is probably not true.Most historians believe that he locked himself in the wheelhouse and went down with his ship, but some of the survivors claimed to have encountered him when he passed an infant child into a lifeboat from the water. It is also unclear how Smith lost his life.Very little is known about what Captain Smith did in time between the Titanic colliding with the iceberg and sinking.He knew that the ship was going to sink, but he didn’t pass this information on to all of his officers. Smith has been criticised for failing to properly manage the evacuation of passengers.He was woken up by the sound of the collision and was told what had happened by William Murdoch, the First Officer. Captain Smith was in bed when the ship collided with an iceberg.It is believed that Captain Smith considered retirement before accepting command of the Titanic. ![]()
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