Instead the captain apparently called out "look after yourselves boys." Other survivors even made claims that in the Titanic captain's final moments he rescued a baby and handed it off to a lifeboat.

Over 1,500 people died when the RMS Titanic sank on April 14-15, 1912, following its fateful collision with an iceberg in one of the most notorious maritime disasters in history.

Author Dan E. Parkes writes of the ship's tragic sinking, and Smith's family legacy, in ‘Titanic Legacy: The Captain, The Daughter and The Spy’ The sinking of the R.M.S Titanic after it hit an ...

The sinking of the R.M.S Titanic after it hit an iceberg in the late hours of April 14, 1912 is one of the most well-known maritime disasters in history. The tragedy, in which over 1,500 ...

Author Dan E. Parkes writes of the ship's tragic sinking, and Smith's family legacy, in ‘Titanic Legacy: The Captain, The Daughter and The Spy’ ...