encyclopedia titanica

A statue of the captain of the illfated Titanic could be moved to his home city almost 100 years after being rejected by his townsfolk Captain Edward John Smiths statue was put up in Beacon Park Lichfield in 1914 because StokeonTrent refused it They did not wish to be associated with the disastrous liner A campaign has now been started to get the bronze statue moved to Captain Smiths home town of Hanley But Lichfield council bosses want to keep it