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Jan 22, 2021 · J. Bruce Ismay testifying at the Senate enquiry. However, none of Ismay’s philanthropic activities would ever repair his public image, and, from retrospect, it is easy to understand why. 1912 was a different time, a different world. It was a time when chauvinism was common and chivalry was expected.
Apr 13, 2012 · J Bruce Ismay spent much of the rest of his life living out of the public eye in Costello in the west of Ireland before returning to London where he died in 1937. However, his family want to ...
Aug 3, 2011 · The man who built the Titanic lived for ever in disgrace after fleeing the stricken vessel. At 1.45am. on April 15, 1912, an hour and a half after the Titanic hit the iceberg, J Bruce Ismay ...
Apr 15, 2012 · J Bruce Ismay was saved in one of the collapsible lifeboats from the Titanic. J Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, left the Titanic in one of the last lifeboats to be launched ...
Mar 12, 2022 · J. Bruce Ismay made controversial decisions during the building of the Titanic and during the trip (that, of course, if he truly pressured the captain to speed up), and the rest of his life was marked by the tragedy at a deeper level as he (according to family friends) continued to “torment himself” with speculation over how the sinking of ...
Aug 12, 2011 · On board was the chairman of the White Star Line, J Bruce Ismay, who got into a lifeboat, saving himself and leaving to drown some two-thirds of the passengers on the ship he owned and had helped ...
Ismay, Joseph Bruce. Ismay, Joseph Bruce ( 1862–1937 ), shipowner, was born at Enfield House, Great Crosby, near Liverpool, on 12 December 1862, the eldest son in a family of nine children of Thomas Henry Ismay (1837–1899), shipowner and founder of the White Star Line, and his wife, Margaret (1838–1907), daughter of Luke Bruce.
