The Story of Captain Smith - How Did He Become Captain of RMS Titanic?

This is the story of Edward J Smith -The Millionaire’s Captain.

On the 10th April, 1912, RMS Titanic left her berth in Southampton, England and set off on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to New York.
She was the largest, most luxurious ocean liner ever to sail the seas and was an iconic symbol of early 20th Century maritime technology as well as an overwhelming display of Edwardian wealth and privilege.

Onboard were some of the world’s wealthiest, most famous and most esteemed passengers along with hundreds of third-class passengers, seeking new lives in America.

At the helm was Captain Edward J Smith, the Commodore of the White Star Line. Here was the grandest ship with the wealthiest passengers and the ambitions and hopes of scores of emigrating families being steered westwards across the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean by the most respected and most revered Captain on the high sea.

What is very well known is the story of what happened on that voyage of April 1912 but what is less well known is the story of Edward J Smith himself.

Who was he?

Where did he come from and how did he build, so successfully, his career at sea?

How did he rise through the ranks of the White Star Line to become such a heralded officer and captain?

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