James Clinch Smith

• American

On the night of the terrible disaster when I came upon the deck after having been aroused from my slumbers, I met Smith, and we made an agreement to stick to each other through thick and thin. We first realized the gravity of the situation while we were still on a lower deck when we noticed the list the ship gave toward the port side. We took up our station on the port side of the boat deck, at the bow end, near where women and children were being loaded into one of the boats. Here, without any seeming fear whatsoever, Smith stood and he and I helped lift women and children and babies over the rail as each boat was loaded and then lowered. Toward the last, when the list of the vessel became such that Second Officer Lightoller ordered all passengers to the starboard side, Smith at once obeyed and I followed. Here he calmly took in all that was being done by the crew in an attempt to launch a collapsible canvas boat that had been slid down from the hurricane deck, and he and I helped. Before the boat could be launched, the water was upon us.Archibald Gracie, The truth about the Titanic

Lineage

• Father John Lawrence Smith

• Sister: Ella Batavia Smith Emmet
• Sister: Louise Nicoll Smith Osborne
• Sister: Cornelia Stewart Butler
• Sister: Bessie Springs Smith White
• Sister: Kate Annette Wetherill