#bruce ismay

[frankidacre]

scrunkly blorbos except they’re a nuanced dead person that you need to handle with care like a fragile package

[rmstitanics]

ENDLESS LIST OF MY FAVORITE DIALOGUE MOMENTS IN MEDIA, 5/∞

TITANIC (1997) - DIR. JAMES CAMERON

[titanicincquo]

Ismay: I feel like I've died and gone to heaven. Andrews: I have that dream too, but you go in the other direction.

[thereadersmuse]

One of the most understated moments of "Titanic" is Thomas Andrews silently chuckling when Rose makes a dick joke at luncheon. Delivering a sick burn to the ego of Bruce Ismay that completely goes over his head.

[lightdoch]

Let me paint you a picture.

You're in Washington, D.C., capital of a foreign country. You're being questioned by a hardass Senator who doesn't know stem from stern. Your boss is boring holes into you from nearby (above, far left, pen to his mouth). You're surrounded on all sides by company officials, politicians, reporters, their wives--all of whom want to see heads roll. Your head, in particular. Your senior officer is sitting beside you for "moral support" (below, circled), but he would rather be anywhere but here. You don't blame him. It's claustrophobic. The wind outside is whistling like the howls of the damned.

The hardass Senator asks you to describe the screaming.

Titanic sank a week ago. You're Herbert Pitman, her third officer, and you really, really don't want to describe the screaming.

But before that, he asks you about your fellow officers.

Sen. SMITH: "You, of course, knew Officer Murdoch?" PITMAN: "Well, sir."

Although you had never been assigned the same ship before, you knew him as regulars of the Atlantic run, and considered him a good friend. Titanic would be the first and last time you served with him.

Sen. SMITH: "And but four of the officers of the Titanic survived?" PITMAN: "Four. That is correct, sir." Sen. SMITH: "Three besides yourself?" PITMAN: "Three besides myself."

The Senator harasses you about icebergs for what feels like hours. You give as short answers as possible to get it over with quicker. The papers will describe you as stolid.

Focus shifts to the day of the collision--April 14th. Word among the officers was that you might come upon ice during Mr. Murdoch's watch. You hadn't paid it any mind then; you just went to bed. You only had four hours to sleep between watches and you intended to use every bit of them.

You had this odd dream that the ship was coming to anchor, or so you believed, until Boxhall told you you'd struck an iceberg, that there was water in the mail room, and Moody told you there was ice on the well deck, and the fleeing firemen told you their cabins were flooding, and you replied with "That is funny."

Even as you swung out and loaded a lifeboat, you didn't think Titanic would sink. Murdoch told you to man the boat and come around to the after gangway. You thought you were better off on the ship.

Murdoch shook your hand-

"Goodbye, old man, good luck."

You pause, the color draining from your face. He knew. He knew, and he sent you away, so you would live.

"I never saw him again."

Your low words do not make it onto the inquiry transcript. You go on to tersely describe what you saw of the sinking, until suddenly the question returns:

Sen. SMITH: "When you shook hands with Murdoch and bade him goodbye, did you ever expect to see him again?" PITMAN: "Certainly, I did." Sen. SMITH: "Do you think, from his manner, he ever expected to see you again?" PITMAN: "Apparently not. I expected to get back to the ship again, perhaps two or three hours afterwards." Sen. SMITH: "But he, from his manner, did not expect that?" PITMAN: "Apparently not."

It is all you can say. The Senator asks why Murdoch ordered you to go to the after gangway. You did not know then--you did not think the ship would sink then, you did not think to pick up more passengers then. You didn't go back. You should have. You should have listened.

The Senator asks you to describe the screaming. You didn't go back. He asks you to describe the screaming. You tell him you'd rather not speak of it. He asks you to-

PITMAN: "I would rather that you would have left that out altogether." Sen. SMITH: "I know you would; but I must know what efforts you made to save the lives of passengers and crew under your charge. If that is all the effort you made, say so-" PITMAN: "That is all, sir." Sen. SMITH (cont'd): "And I will stop that branch of my examination." PITMAN: "That is all, sir; that is all the effort I made."

You choke on your words. The silence that follows is deafening, and damning, broken up only by the moaning wind.

You should have listened.

(everything in this account is true. references: https://strangeago.com/2017/07/14/third-officer-look-titanic-tell-sinking-great-ship/ https://www.titanicinquiry.org/USInq/AmInq04Pitman01.php with images and further information from: https://www.titanicofficers.com/titanic_05_pitman_06.html)

[jusagi91]

Facial reconstruction of Joseph Bruce Ismay. By: @jusagi91

[whitestarlineco]

do bruce ismay fangirls get discounts

Yes of course you're showing you're respect to both us and our important figures. 20% discount.

[frankidacre]

Damn I miss him

(Joseph Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line)