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This one has been doing the rounds but I still love it!
Louis Coulon with his 11 foot beard (plus cat), c. 1900
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Transatlantic steamship captain
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More Captain Edward John Smith.
I’m reading 1912 Facts about the Titanic which I heartily recommend, it’s a good read – loads of human stories including of the ‘little people’ which a lot of the accounts tend to focus on the Astors and Guggenheims and Strausses.
I also bought a replica of the 3rd Class White Star Line coffee cup, which is as camp as hell but lovely.
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In happier times
9th June 1911: Captain John Smith (1850 – 1912) and Lord James Pirrie, Chairman of the Harland & Wolff Shipyard, on the deck of the White Star Liner ‘Olympic’.
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Captain John C. Jamison, S.S. St Paul, American Line
Read more: Captain John C. Jamison, S.S. St Paul, American Line http://www.gjenvick.com/SteamshipArticles/SteamshipCaptains/CaptainsOfAtlanticLiners/1897-06/CaptainJohnCJamison.html#ixzz1NgGbU5b2
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David Dow, penultimate Captain of the RMS Lusitania – left over stress and ‘false flag’ – ie. they were flying the wrong flag and doing covert operations, given what happened a month or so later is very prescient – and we still don’t know if the Lusitania was carrying more than small arms ammunition.
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Unidentified naval officer, 1890’s via LOC, yeah you know me.
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Captain W.T Turner, who was captain of Cunard Liners Mauretania and Lusitania.
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“When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.” – Edward John Smith, Captain of the RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic
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And here he is at work: Captain Smith on Olympic (by louise6851)
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)