Titanic: What Happened To Ismay After The Ship Sank (& Was He Blamed?)

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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? James Cameron is best known for his big-budget productions and his work on the sci-fi genre, thanks to movies like The Terminator and Avatar, but one of his biggest and most popular projects wasn’t from this genre: Titanic, a disaster drama movie released in 1997.

Based on the accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, Titanic tells the story of Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), two passengers from very different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Although Rose and Jack’s story is fictional, throughout Titanic they come across characters based on real-life people who were on board the ship, and many of them were actively involved in the Titanic project, as was the case of J. Bruce Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), who even though appeared briefly and sporadically throughout the movie, was established as one of the biggest cowards in the story.

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J. Bruce Ismay was the chairman and managing director of the White Line Star, the shipping company behind the Titanic. His father, Thomas Ismay, was the founder of White Star Line, and Bruce took over after Thomas’ death. The company flourished under his leadership, and in 1907, he met with Lord Pirrie of the Harland & Wolff shipyard to discuss White Star’s answer to the RMS Lusitania and the RMS Mauretania, which resulted in a new type of ship with huge steerage