All that we can say for positive was that the Titanic sank under the command of EJ Smith on that maiden voyage of Titanic to the USA. The Titanic was not properly set sail with lack of binoculars for look out, not carrying the correct color distress rockets, untrained crew members in lifeboat deployment, excessive speed of the Titanic on that moonless night. The evacuation was passengers to the life rafts was poorly conducted and carried out. The simple fact that almost twice as many more could have survived had the lifeboats been properly filled will be the legacy that Captain was rewarded. The only statue ever erected of Capt. Smith was not even in his home town of Hanley Stroke-On-Trent, but only in Beacon Park, Lichfield and then it never mentions in any inscription in the box that he was the captain of the Titanic. This was only later added above the bronze plaque. Smith may have sealed his own doom in 1907 when he was quoted in saying,
""When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all of my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any sort of predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."

Edward J. Smith, 1907
Captain, RMS Titanic
That along with sailing in a ship that was boosted in name as to be unsinkable by God himself was flying in the face of God Almighty.