Titanic's officers

Captain Edward J Smith and his senior officers photographed on board Titanic, April 1912.

Back row from Left to Right:
Herbert McElroy, Charles Lightoller, Herbert Pitman, Joseph Boxhall, Harold Lowe

Front row from Left to Right:
James Moody, Henry Wilde, Edward Smith, William Murdoch

In 1907, when Captain Smith took command of the ship, Adriatic, on her maiden trip, he said these prophetic words:

" 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……I will say that I cannot imagine any condition which could cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that."