"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident ... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."
Edward J. Smith, 1907
Captain, RMS Titanic, 1912
Captain Smith was planning to retire after the maiden voyage of Titanic.
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Steve
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About Me
- sjwill56
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Retired due to ill health at the end of January 2010. Diagnosed with inoperable and terminal pancreatic cancer. Random entries from the past remind me of a good life.
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