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Captain Edward John Smith

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Commodore of the White Star Line, born at Hanley, Staffordshire in January 1850 and at sea since 1867. He had commanded Olympic on her maiden voyage and was aboard when she collided with HMS Hawke in 1911. Titanic was to have been his last command before retirement. He maintained about 22 knots through a region for which he held ice reports, was on the bridge within moments of the collision, and died in the sinking; accounts of his final minutes conflict and no reliable record of his fate exists.

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    1. Story
    2. Commodore of the White Star Line, born at Hanley, Staffordshire in January 1850 and at sea since 1867. He had commanded Olympic on her maiden voyage and was aboard when she collided with HMS Hawke in 1911. Titanic was to have been his last command before retirement. He maintained about 22 knots through a region for which he held ice reports, was on the bridge within moments of the collision, and died in the sinking; accounts of his final minutes conflict and no reliable record of his fate exists.
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    4. Captain Edward John Smith
    5. Connections
    6. RMS Titanic
    7. RMS Olympic
    8. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
    9. Iceberg sighted and struck
    10. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
    11. Titanic founders
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    13. Found the loss due to collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was navigated; recorded the ship's particulars, the voyage timings, the ice messages received and the lifeboat complement; held that Titanic exceeded the Board of Trade requirement; found the Californian could have reached her; concluded (incorrectly) that the hull sank intact.
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