And as the captain of the Titanic ... Born on January 27, 1850 in Staffordshire, England, Edward John Smith started his seafaring journey at a young age. At 12 or 13, he left school and by ...

In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, Capt. John Smith was captured by a relative of ... In the early 1970s, Randolph Turner, then a young ...

Capt. John Smith and Chief Powhatan had historic encounters ... Only the intervention of Powhatan's young daughter Pocahontas, as the English explorer would dramatize the scene years later ...

With Jamestown slipping behind us, we headed downstream in the wake of Capt. John Smith, the first Englishman to explore the broad waters and many rivers of the Chesapeake Bay. Captain Smith—no ...

Designated as the first national water trail, the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail follows the historic routes of the English explorer’s voyages between 1607 and 1609 on the ...