Captain Edward Smith, the commander of the Titanic, has often been accused of negligence for maintaining high speed in icy waters. The ship was traveling at approximately 22.5 knots, just below its ...

And White Star Line chairman Joseph Bruce Ismay was condemned as a coward for taking a space in a lifeboat. So was there really a 'villain' in the disaster, or was it simply an unavoidable tragedy?

Ismay formulated that aphorism at the height ... European war — only to see its most powerful ally of WWII, Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, become the victorious democracies’ most dangerous ...

The historic Costello Lodge in Casla, County Galway once hid J. Bruce Ismay as he sought refuge from the backlash over his fatal decisions in the building of the RMS Titanic. Ismay, chairman of ...