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J. Bruce Ismay Is Responsible For The Sinking Of The Titanic

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The Titanic was the biggest ship built in the 1900s. The Titanic is very important to us because it helps us remember the people who went down with their ship. Back then the Titanic was just not a ship that people went on it was a Royal Mail Ship. The Titanic is very important because people are still arguing about who is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic. I believe J. Bruce Ismay is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic because he was more powerful than Captain Smith. Although some people think Captain Smith is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic. However, I think that it is J. Bruce Ismay because he told Captain Smith to accelerate the speed of the ship after they received 7 ice warnings. They say that Captain Smith didn’t put as many people on the lifeboats as he could and that’s true, but Ismay didn’t have enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship. When Ismay saw the iceberg, it was too close so he took a 90% angle and got a hole on …show more content…

Bruce Ismay because he put pressure on Captain Smith. Like he told him to stay the same pace as they were going when they received the ice warning. A few more examples are that he ignored all dispatch calls and didn’t tell Captain Smith, and didn’t have enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship. There are still a lot more reasons why I think Ismay is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic. There are many little things J. Bruce Ismay did that, it makes me think that he is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic. Like he did not take time to test the ship and take precautions and that is the important thing you need to do before you get the ship on the water. One more thing I am pinning J. Bruce Ismay on is that he skipped over a good crew and did not have a good person for every single job on the Titanic. One last major thing that he did was that he took a lifeboat for himself and the crew was not supposed to take a lifeboat they were supposed to go down with the

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