The managing director of the White Star Line, Bruce Ismay, escaped Titanic on lifeboat C.
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The person was J. Bruce Ismay, Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line, survived the disaster. He was not classed as company president. However, this title is used for people at his level of authority in many similar business types
No he did not he just lowered the lifeboat count, he did make the watertight compartments smaller so it wouldn't interfere with the 1st class area. With this attachment the ship would have survived.
Well the richest man overall was Josh Jacob Astor who perished with the ship but the rich man who took a seat from the lifeboat when he shouldn't was Joseph Bruce Ismay who was an English businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line.
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Joseph Bruce Ismay
The company that BUILT Titanic was Harland & Wolff - but the managing director of the company that OWNED her (The White Star Line) was Bruce Ismay.
The managing director of the White Star Line, Bruce Ismay, escaped Titanic on lifeboat C.
White Star Line had several owners at various times, and it seems to have been a jinx for whomever owned it.
I think it was J. Bruce Ismay. He was the managing director of the White Star Line. I hope I was helpful :D
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Bruce Ismay's secretary was Miss Mary Sloan. She was a trusted assistant who worked closely with Ismay in his role as managing director of the White Star Line.
J.P Morgan would be your first guess, right? Well, not at the time the Titanic went down. It was actually J. Bruce Ismay.
Managing Director of the White Star Line Bruce Ismay was aware that they already had more than was legally required under British law.
This was a crass joke made by the Managing Director of the White Star Line, Sir Bruce Ismay- although it was in extremely poor taste, Ismay never intended his remark to be taken seriously.
The person was J. Bruce Ismay, Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line, survived the disaster. He was not classed as company president. However, this title is used for people at his level of authority in many similar business types