J. Bruce Ismay
person
Chairman and managing director of the White Star Line and president of International Mercantile Marine, born 1862, son of the line's founder. He travelled on the maiden voyage as a guest of the company, was handed the Baltic's ice warning by Captain Smith on 14 April and kept it in his pocket for several hours, and left in Collapsible C near the end of the evacuation. Neither inquiry found him culpable, but the American press and much of British opinion never forgave his survival; he withdrew from public life and died in 1937.
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- Story
- Chairman and managing director of the White Star Line and president of International Mercantile Marine, born 1862, son of the line's founder. He travelled on the maiden voyage as a guest of the company, was handed the Baltic's ice warning by Captain Smith on 14 April and kept it in his pocket for several hours, and left in Collapsible C near the end of the evacuation. Neither inquiry found him culpable, but the American press and much of British opinion never forgave his survival; he withdrew from public life and died in 1937.
- Knowledge
- White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
- J. Bruce Ismay
- Connections
- White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
- Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
- US Senate inquiry opens at the Waldorf-Astoria
- RMS Titanic
- J. Bruce Ismay
- Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
- Evidence
- Criticised the Californian's failure to respond to rockets, the absence of lifeboat drill and of a continuous wireless watch, and the inadequacy of lifeboat provision; recommended lifeboat seats for every person carried.
- Found the loss due to collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was navigated; recorded the ship's particulars, the voyage timings, the ice messages received and the lifeboat complement; held that Titanic exceeded the Board of Trade requirement; found the Californian could have reached her; concluded (incorrectly) that the hull sank intact.
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