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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. 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.”

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Edward Smith, a British naval officer, is renowned for his role in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. He was born on January 27, 1850, and died on April 15, 1912. more

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