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|comment= J.Bruce Ismay was a very senitive and private person and it is high time that books such as this and other publications, stopped suggesting that he was a coward, and even on some occasions are still, in these enlightened times, prepared to make scurrilous untrue remarks about him.
The Titanic had more lifeboats on board than the Regulations demanded. If he had not entered the collapsible lifeboat with Mr Carter, which was being lowered, and was not full to capacity, with no other passengers in sight. This would simply have added one more name to the casualty list.
This book has many factual errors and it also states that it was company policy to stop the crew's pay at the time the ship went down . Does the author realise that this was British Maritime Practice to stop crew's pay as soon as they had no ship to serve on. This was the same for most, if not all, British Merchant ships , even if they had been torpedoed, right up to the second world war.
Both the British and American enquiries exonerated Mr Ismay of any wrongdoing , and perhaps, if he was guilty of anything it would be of having too much confidence in the invincibility of the vessel.
And now in this anniversary year, of this tragic accident, this persecution and using him as a scapegoat should stop.
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