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When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of 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 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.
I will say that I cannot imagine any condition which could cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.
Captain Edward J. Smith, R.M.S. Titanic
Intervew on maiden trip of the Adriatic, 1907. Quoted in Disater At Last Befalls Capt. Smith, New York Times newspaper, 16 April 1912.
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.
Captain Edward J. Smith
R.M.S. Titanic, an experienced 62 year old captain, this was to be his last voyage prior to retirement, 1912. Quoted in Disaster At Last Defalls Capt. Smith, The New York Times newspaper, 16 April 1912.
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