Stated that they were telling a titanic lie.
Although the official cause of the death of Titanic captain, Edward John Smith, is still one of the lasting mysteries in history, the author Dan E. Parkes has thrown cold water in the theories that took their own lives, claiming that these rumors unfairly tarnish their legacy.
He made these bombs in the book “Titanic Legacy: The Captain, The Daughter and the Spy”, which details the accounts of eye testimonies of the survivors of the wreck, who argue, among other things, as Captain Smith fulfilled his end, reported the Daily Mail.
More than 1,500 people died when Titanic RMS sank on April 14-15, 1912, after its fateful collision with an iceberg in one of the most notorious maritime disasters in history.
Unfortunately, the body of the British naval officer never recovered, only 337 were never – generated a wide range of explanations on how he died.
These went from accounts that he fell by the boat, as shown in the epic “titanic” of James Cameron, to the theories of the conspiracy that claim that the legendary sailor lived in Maryland.
As the author Wyn Craig Wade wrote in “The Titanic: End of a Dream”, Captain Smith, who was played by the late Bernard Hill in the film, “had at least five different deaths, from heroics to ignominious,” according to History.com.
The most wealthy forensic postulation occurred three days after the tragedy, when Los Angeles Express proclaimed on its homepage: “Captain Ej Smith shot.”
One day later, the Daily Mirror of the United Kingdom stated on its homepage: “Captain Smith shoots on the bridge.”
During the consultation on the maritime tragedy held in New York and London, the survivors said that they had also heard rumors at the end of the 62 -year -old commodore.
The suicide was seen as a cowardly way to leave during a time when the captain was linked to honor to go down with the boat.
And this was just the tip of the iceberg: there were also controversial reports that made Smith’s reputation when he was alive, claiming he was hungry for drinks, piloting the Titanic at a non -safe speed and also ignored warnings about the iceberg: throwing salt in the wound of his widow and 7 -year -old daughter honey.
However, Parkes tagged these unfounded characters murdered, saying that the revered captain drowned or frozen death in the North Atlantic with the other victims.
Despite the abundance of eye testimonial stories from a officer suicide, the author believes that the officer in question was not Smith, since he was not named.
Parkes, on the other hand, claims that shooting features had been fired to calm Panicking passengers, and traumatized travelers, without evidence, were listening to the captain’s self -injured pistol wound.
He said that many of these eye testimonies that stated that they were not reliable, as they were on lifeboats that landed long before the final decline of the Titanic.
Parkes, who also dismissed the Captain’s drunken claims, reckless direction and the removal of warnings, added that perhaps passengers needed an expiatory goat for calamity and settled in the sailor.
There are many eye testimonial accounts that support the Parkes version of his last moments, including one for, Robert Williams Daniel, a 27 -year -old banker who said he saw Captain Smith on the bridge “as the Titanic sank.
According to New York Herald at that time, the water was swallowed by the whole captain, stating, “A hero died.”
Isaac Maynard, a 31 -year -old chef, testified in New York that he had also seen Smith on the bridge when he himself was devastated in the Borda, adding that he later saw the white sailor swim in the water completely dressed in his captain’s hat on his head.
“One of the men clinging to the raft tried to save him in his hand, but he would not leave him and shouted,” Care -Bones, boys, “Maynard said.
Parkes cites other survivors who stated that the captain even rescued a baby and handed him to a lifeboat, but refused to climb his own boat.
“Fifteen meters away was the body of a baby who attracted the sailor in struggle,” a player and a stati who embarked on the Titanic name for a fake name for a lifeboat, told Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The little one was safely, he set safely on board, and the captain summed up his struggle for his titanica sinking the Titanic.
Parkes tagged this heroic action completely in a character for Smith, who was nicknamed “Captain Millionaire” because of his popularity with upper class travelers.
The survivors even claimed that the sailors put on a brave face despite knowing that Doom was imminent, according to History.com.
“I saw Captain Smith excited; passengers would not have realized, but I did it,” said May Sloan, a surviving titanica fan, in a letter shortly after the catastrophe. “I knew we were going soon.”
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