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Mar 12, 2022 · Titanic mixes historical facts with a lot of fictional details, and among the characters based on real-life people is J. Bruce Ismay, who in the movie is portrayed as an ambitious man and a coward – but what happened to him after the Titanic sank and was he blamed for the tragedy?
- Adrienne Tyler
- Senior Staff Writer
On the morning of 14 October 1937, he collapsed in his bedroom at his residence in Mayfair, London, after suffering a massive stroke, which left him unconscious, blind and mute. [40] Three days later, on 17 October, J. Bruce Ismay died at the age of 74.
Mar 24, 2021 · Ismay died at his London home in 1937 at the age of 74. English businessman J. Bruce Ismay was the chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, the British shipping company that owned the Titanic.
- Sandra Mardenfeld
Apr 13, 2012 · The film portrayed the Titanic's owner Joseph Bruce Ismay as a coward for abandoning the ship while others perished. Now descendants of Ismay, who have never been interviewed...
- Sarah Travers
- J. Bruce Ismay inherited his father’s job. Ismay rose to one of the most powerful positions in transatlantic travel thanks to his father, who purchased a bankrupt White Star Line in 1868 and built it into the boating behemoth it became by the end of the century.
- He and his brother married sisters. In 1888, Ismay married into a wealthy and prestigious New York family when he took Florence Schieffelin as his wife.
- Ismay was mistakenly thought to have insulted members of the U.S. Congress. In 1889, Ismay was caught up in a media scandal following the (otherwise successful) maiden voyage of another White Star liner, the Teutonic.
- Ismay didn’t reduce the number of Titanic’s lifeboats, but he did care about the ship’s appearance. An oft-repeated story meant to illustrate the vanity and villainy of J. Bruce Ismay suggests that, against the wishes of the ship’s architect, he reduced the number of lifeboats Titanic carried because it made the deck appear too cluttered.
Apr 15, 2012 · J Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, left the Titanic in one of the last lifeboats to be launched, a decision that was to haunt him for the rest of his life.
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May 5, 2024 · J. Bruce Ismay was a British businessman who was chairman of the White Star Line and who survived the sinking of the company’s ship Titanic in 1912. Ismay was the eldest son of Thomas Henry Ismay, who owned the White Star Line, which operated a fleet of passenger ships.
