A little alternative history there.
(A scenario I already envisioned on a French speaking Titanic community forum (www.titanic.superforum.fr for your info.) btw)
Back in time...
April 15th, Thomas Andrews is assisting passengers gathered on the Boat Deck to board the lifeboats. At a moment, one of the officer orders Andrews to get into one of them ( similar situation to Lights with Peuchen, apart this time it was more of looking for a volonteer). It's an absolute necessity at the moment, because there's a lack of people with full shipping knowledge. So Thomas Andrews gets in and is rescued by the Carpathia.
Then, as Bruce Ismay, he's summoned to the Comission Smith as a principal witness upon arrival in New York.
As he would have been de facto a kind of "forced" sinking survivor, would he had been as unfairly as Ismay scapegoated by the press?
Or on the contrary, as the building firm's representative would he had gotten an even worse treatment?
Really interesting question.... Feel free to post your feelings.
(A scenario I already envisioned on a French speaking Titanic community forum (www.titanic.superforum.fr for your info.) btw)
Back in time...
April 15th, Thomas Andrews is assisting passengers gathered on the Boat Deck to board the lifeboats. At a moment, one of the officer orders Andrews to get into one of them ( similar situation to Lights with Peuchen, apart this time it was more of looking for a volonteer). It's an absolute necessity at the moment, because there's a lack of people with full shipping knowledge. So Thomas Andrews gets in and is rescued by the Carpathia.
Then, as Bruce Ismay, he's summoned to the Comission Smith as a principal witness upon arrival in New York.
As he would have been de facto a kind of "forced" sinking survivor, would he had been as unfairly as Ismay scapegoated by the press?
Or on the contrary, as the building firm's representative would he had gotten an even worse treatment?
Really interesting question.... Feel free to post your feelings.