... nine, Captain Smith planned to retire after this last trip, a perfect final tribute to a long and successful career. On the morning of April 11, 1912, Thomas Andrews (Appendix A: Portraits), a ship builder, and the nine-member "guarantee group- from Harland & Wolff's yards, held a full dress drill of the watertight ... decks as the iceberg brushed along the side of the ship. The impact was so subtle most people slept right through it. Second Class Chief Steward John Hardy, who was awake at the time, later described it as, "A slight jar, a gradual jar; I did not think it was anything at a...

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