Did the Titanic “coward” really do something wrong? Relatives of the vicious White Star Line head apologize to the granddaughter of the woman whose husband died in 1912

At the time, he was regarded as a “coward” and was therefore one of the villains of James Cameron’s 1997 film.

Transport Minister Joseph Bruce Bruce Ismay survived the sinking of his pride and joy, and the Titanic mysteriously found the lifeboat, and even if they were reserved for women and children, they could survive.

His fifth cousin and chief guard writer Cliff Ismay has long insisted that the White Star boss has been treated unfairly with history.

But in the Channel 4 documentary aired tonight, Mr. Ismei apologized to the granddaughter of the 1912 disaster survivor, whose new husband was told her spouse was turned away.

He told Laura Decker Ward that his grandmother was Lebanese third-level passenger Celena Alexander Yasbeck, who traveled with her husband Antoni.

Historian Dr. Nick Barratt admits in Titanic: Our Secret History: “I know the cliff you believe, to make sure Bruce did the right thing, no one else.” This challenge narrates a little. ”

Titanic’s maiden voyage from Southampton to New York after hitting an iceberg. More than 1,500 passengers and crew members were killed.

Although the “incredible” lining has 2,225 people, only more than half of the lifeboats are available.

Joseph Bruce Ismay is the chairman of White Star Line. Australian star Jonathan Hyde is portrayed as a villain in the 1997 film Titanic

There are 16 wooden boats and four other canvas foldable boats.

Ismay and Yasbeck, who were only 15 years old at the time, both found space in the foldable lifeboat C.

Yasbeck tried to ascend her husband to the husband whom he married less than two months ago, but he was turned away.

Later, she described how one of the Titanic officers put a pistol on her husband’s head and warned him of priorities for women and children.

It raises the likelihood that Anthony could be shot.

“They are third-class passengers,” her granddaughter, Laura Decker Ward, said in the program.

“Antoni was able to bring my grandmother into the lifeboat, foldable C, and he was not allowed to enter the same lifeboat.

“She will never see him again. He is dead.

Celena Alexander Yasbeck Decker and her husband Antoni. When the Titanic sank in April 1912, the couple had been married for less than two months.

Yasbeck later contributed to author Walter Lord’s acclaimed narrative of the Titanic disaster, a memorable night, published in 1955.

She and her husband were on the cottage bed on the deck on the boat when they felt the Titanic hit the iceberg.

Later, they saw a computer room where water flooded into a boat. Aware of the gravity of this situation, they rushed to the deck on the boat.

Yasbeck remarried in January 1914 to Ms. Ward’s grandfather, Elias Michael Daghir.

The woman and her new spouse are named after her first husband.

She died in 1966 in Norfolk, Virginia.

As the mastermind behind the luxury liner, Ismay is perhaps its most important passenger.

In Cameron’s film, he is portrayed as a arrogant villain by Australian star Jonathan Hyde.

Yisbeck was only 15 years old when he was sailing on the Titanic. As the news report above points out

Joseph Bruce Ismay’s fifth cousin, Cliff Ismay

Laura Decker Ward is Celena Alexander Yasbeck

Before the disaster, he urged Captain Edward Smith to speed up the ship so that he could arrive in New York early and “make headlines.”

Although this is almost certainly not happening, Ismay himself did testify after the disaster: “Our intention is to drive the ship at full speed if we are clear Monday afternoon or Tuesday.”

He was known to have a private discussion with Joseph Bell, the chief engineer of the Titanic, before the ship left Queenstown in Ireland, its last round trip to Queensport.

Experts believe that the ship was traveling too fast in the warning of ice received.

Ismay of Hyde also saved his skin by finding one in a lifeboat at the expense of women and children.

The reality is more complicated. Indeed, he did jump into the lifeboat and was insulted since then.

But at the moment he left the doomed boat, he actively participated in the loading of the lifeboat and witnesses who ordered according to habits saw women and children’s priorities.

One crew member remembers: “He is doing everything he can to help drive the boat out.”

The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Above: Before the ship leaves Southampton

In the 2022 book “Understanding”, J. Bruce Ismay: The true story of the man they call “Titanic Cowards”, Cliff Ismay defends the behavior of his ancestors.

Ismay allegedly entered the lifeboat only after sending calls for more women, and no one came forward.

So, with the space on the 47 boats, he took his seat.

Ismay later explained that he did not mediate at the last minute, as he could see no other women waiting for rescue.

But shortly after being rescued with the survivors, he learned that many women did not escape.

Ismay felt intimate. Young survivor Jack Thayer recalls: “Even if I tried to get him to talk to him and tell him that he had the perfect right to take the boat, he absolutely had no attention and kept moving forward, fixed staring.

‘On the Titanic, his hair is black and slightly gray, but now it’s Snow White. I’ve never seen a person so completely ruined.

Thayer recalls even more abominably that he saw Ismay, who had been assisting the last boat, pushing his way into it. In fact, everyone is for themselves’.

Charles Lightoller, the highest officer of the Titanic, survived the sinking, recalls that Ismay was “obsessed with the idea that he should have fallen down the ship because the woman collapsed.”

Although official inquiries in New York and London have blamed Isma for blame, he remains frustrated in most of the news coverage.

A year after the disaster, he retired from the White Star Line and moved to an Ireland shooting estate, where he died in 1937 when he was 74 years old.

Titanic: Our Secret History will be aired on Channel 4 at 8pm tonight.

The terrifying 1912 Titanic tragedy

Built by Belfast-based shipyards Harland and Wolff between 1909 and 1912, the RMS Titanic was the largest ship of her era.

The passenger ship was owned and operated by the White Star Line and sailed from Southampton to New York on April 10, 1912.

The liner stopped twice during her planned Atlantic traversal, one at the port of Selberg, France and the other at the port of Cork, Ireland, where smaller vessels transported passengers on the board of Titanics and on the board.

Nearly five days after her voyage, the Titanic hit an iceberg around 23:40 local time, creating six narrow openings in the ship’s starboard hull, believed to have occurred due to rivets captured by the hull.

Before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg while voyage from Southampton to New York. Within three hours, the “unbelievable” ship slipped in the waves of the frozen Atlantic Ocean, killing more than 1,500 people

The Titanic fetches water 15 times faster than pumping water, and it turns out that the hull is hurt so extensively to the watertight bulkhead of the ship, to prevent flooding from flooding onto the lower deck of the compartment partitions of the bushing.

About two and a half hours later, the ship was divided into two parts and sank, each settled at the bottom of the sea near one-third of a mile apart.

It is believed that about 1,500 people were killed in the tragedy, including about 815 passengers on the liner.

The main feature of the boat is the large staircase. It is made of English oak and reinforced with wrought iron. The decorated glass dome is designed to allow as much natural light as possible

The luxurious Titanic is the largest ship in the world, carrying some of the world’s richest people, as well as hundreds of people from the UK, Ireland and elsewhere in the United States seeking new life.

Three days later, eight Chinese joined the ship, six survived and boarded New York, the first ship to arrive at the scene of the disaster.

Under the US China Exclusion Act, these people were transferred to British steamships and sent to Cuba after 24 hours

Nearly five days after her voyage, the Titanic hit an iceberg around 23:40 local time, creating six narrow openings in the ship’s starboard hull, believed to have occurred due to rivets captured by the hull. The picture shows the iceberg being thought to have sunk the Titanic