One of those people was Bruce Ismay, the owner of the White Star Line ship company, and he had his share in the cause of the Titanic's sinking. One day while the ship was moving at a steady pace across the ocean Bruce Ismay and Captain Smith sit down to have a talk. Bruce spoke to Smith about pushing the ship up to full speed, not thinking about the ice warnings. He wanted to make the elegant ship he owned make headlines all over so people knew about his ship. Smith told him about the ice but got a careless response about how ice is normal for this time of year. Eventually the captain was convinced at Bruce's idea. Also he wanted his last voyage to be grand. He then ordered the ship to full speed and right on course. This was a big factor in the sinking of the Titanic. The ship was going to fast at night and when they saw the iceberg they couldn't slow the massive ship down fast enough to clear the iceberg all the way. If only Captain Smith had slowed down enough to clear the iceberg many more lives would have been …show more content…
He had been a very successful captain for many other voyages and had a very clean record. He had been the Captain of many other ships and the Titanic was his last voyage and that gave a big part to the sinking. Even though there were many other ice warnings sent to the Titanic Captain SMith missed a few of them because he was celebrating his retirement at a party. Other ships also knew about his retirement so they did expect a party. As the Titanic was sinking they knew another ship was near them so they fired flairs into the air to signal for help. The other ship thought it was fireworks for the party and ignored it. This played a big part in the sinking, because if the ship knew they needed help they could have same and saved the drowning ship. Also the captain was distracted by the fact that he was about to retire so he wanted to go out with a bang so he fell easily into the peer pressure of Bruce Ismay and wanted to achieve great recognition for his final voyage. But because of this instead of going down in history he went down to the bottom of the