“But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident of 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 had been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.”
Those words come from Capt. E.J. Smith. He spoke them in 1907. Five years later, he was awarded the command of the RMS Titanic, and we all know what happened there.
Walter Lord’s masterly volume written in 1955, breaks down minute by minute the
