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Hace 2 días · The Birth of a Legend. The Titanic was conceived as the ultimate expression of luxury and technological prowess in the early 20th century. The brainchild of J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, and Lord William Pirrie, chairman of the Harland and Wolff shipyard, the Titanic was designed to be the largest and most opulent ocean liner ever built.
Hace 5 días · Bruce Ismay, presidente de la naviera White Star Line, y William Perrie, presidente de los astilleros Harland & Wolff, pusieron en marcha un ambicioso proyecto que consistía en construir los ...
Hace 2 días · It was aboard this boat that White Star chairman and managing director J. Bruce Ismay, Titanic ' s most controversial survivor, made his escape from the ship, an act later condemned as cowardice. At 01:40, lifeboat No. 2 was lowered.
Hace 1 día · Among the millionaires who snatched up properties was Henry Graff Trevor, who paid $2,000 per square foot for a 30- by 100-foot lot at the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 52nd Street, across the avenue from the asylum proper. Trevor was born on April 25, 1865 to John B. Trevor (described by Prominent Families of New York in 1898 as "one ...
Hace 22 horas · Jonathan Hyde as J. Bruce Ismay, White Star Line's ignorant, boorish managing director. Ismay influences Captain Smith to go faster with the prospect of an earlier arrival in New York and favorable press attention; while this appears in popular portrayals of the disaster, it is unsupported by evidence.
Hace 22 horas · Bruce Ismay, il proprietario della nave, brama le prime pagine e vorrebbe arrivare prima del previsto a New York. Il capitano E.J. Smith ed il costruttore Thomas Andrews invitano alla prudenza. Anche il fochista Barrett esprime preoccupazione sul viaggio rapido del Titanic.
Hace 2 días · Lord Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff, intended to travel aboard the Titanic, but illness prevented him from joining the ill-fated voyage; however, White Star Line's managing director J. Bruce Ismay and the ship's Harland and Wolff designer, Thomas Andrews, were both on board to oversee the ship's progress on her maiden voyage.
