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He was the son of Thomas Henry Ismay (7 January 1837 – 23 November 1899) and Margaret Bruce (13 April 1837 – 9 April 1907), daughter of ship-owner Luke Bruce. [2] Thomas Ismay was the senior partner in Ismay, Imrie and Company and the founder of the White Star Line.
Titanic ' s owner J. P. Morgan was scheduled to travel on the maiden voyage but cancelled at the last minute. [121] Also aboard the ship were the White Star Line's managing director J. Bruce Ismay and Titanic ' s designer Thomas Andrews†, who was on board to observe any problems and assess the general performance of the new ship. [122]
Thomas Andrews Jr. (7 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was a British businessman and shipbuilder, who was managing director and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland.
The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 14, 1912, after months of being declared the "unsinkable ship." The maritime disaster took the lives of approximately 1,500 people who either sank with ...
The owners of the submersible lost on its dive to visit that famed ship’s wreckage may do the same thing, Sheila Flynn reports: An 1851 maritime law protected Titanic owners in court.
The owners of the Titanic sought to limit liability following the ship’s sinking by petitioning under 1851 legislation. The owners of the submersible lost on its dive to visit that famed ship ...
A new ship, intended to be the first of a new class to replace the Jubilee class, had been launched in 1917 – Vedic. This was the first White Star ship to be powered solely by turbines and had the same emigrant/cargo-carrying role as her predecessors, although at 460 ft (140 m) and 9,332 gross register tons, she was smaller than the older ships.
The sinking of the Titanic was one of the causes of the decline of IMMC. The early 1910s marked a turning point for the IMM. Indeed, on 15 April 1912, the Titanic, flagship of its fleet, sank during her maiden voyage. Besides the financial and human losses, the sinking had repercussions on the organization of the trust.