The captain goes down with the ship The captain goes down with the ship "The captain goes down with the ship" is an idiom and maritime tradition that a sea captain holds ultimate responsibility for both his ship and everyone embarked on it, and that in an emergency, he will either save them or die trying. Although often connected to the sinking of RMS "Titanic" in 1912 and its captain, Edward J. Smith, the phrase precedes "Titanic" by at least 11 years. In most instances, the captain of the ship forgoes his own rapid departure of a ship in distress, and concentrates instead on saving other people.
Saved from the Titanic "A Survivor of the Titanic" and in Germany as "Was die Titanic sie lehrte" ("What the "Titanic" Taught Her"). It attracted a positive review in "The Moving Picture World" of May 11, 1912, which described Gibson's performance as "a unique piece of acting in the sensational new film-play of the Éclair Company ... [which is] creating a great activity in the market, for the universal interest in the catastrophe has made a national demand." The review went on: The "Motion Picture News" commended the film's "wonderful mechanical and lighting effects, realistic scenes, perfect reproduction of the true history of the