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Description: | This photograph shows Captain Smith with his dog. Although there were several dogs on board the ship when she was lost in 1912, Captain Smith did not take his with him on board.
The Captain did not take his dress sword with him either and this was later presented by his family to the town of Southampton. The sword is now kept at Southampton Maritime Museum by Bugle Street.
Unfortunately Captain Edward Smith chose to go down with his ship R.M.S Titanic, April 15 1912.
R.M.S Titanic sailed on her maiden voyage from the Port of Southampton, April 10 1912. She was to call at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown in Ireland. Her final destination was to be New York City.
However on her way from Ireland to New York city, she struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean and sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912. She took with her 1500 lives whilst only 750 survived.
The disaster had a great impact upon Southampton and the rest of Hampshire as many of her passengers and crew were from the local area | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Southampton City Museums | Subjects: | Southampton Maritime Museum Southampton Ocean Liners Bugle Street White Star Line Titanic Shipping life Captain Edward Smith Maritime History E. J Captain Smith | Temporal: | start=1912-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | William Burrough Scott; (Copied by: Southampton City Museums) | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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