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Show CAPTAIN SMITH OP THE TITANIC WAS COMMANDING OLYMPIC WHEN SHE AND BRITISH SHIP HAWKE COLLIDED JCAPTWH SMITH AliD THE TITATile London, April 19 Captain E J Smith, the admiral of tho White Star line fleet, was placed in command of the Titanic when she entered commission, commis-sion, just as ho was in command of her sister ship, tho Olympic, when she made her first voyage Captain Smith met with dlsastei while commanding the Olympic last September, the linor and thc'BiItlsh crulsor Ilawke colliding collid-ing in Cowes Roads The Olympic was so badly damaged that she was laid up for threo months for repairs. |