Unsinkable page 4

Unsinkable page 4 by ric Gustafson


J Bruce Ismay was born in 1862. He was educated at the preparatory school of Elstree and Harrow. The younger Ismay was never able to get out from under his father's shadow. Junius Pierpont Morgan was an American trust builder who had a vision of controlling the North Atlantic shipping lines. His first action was to acquire the troubled Inman Line. In 1899, Thomas Ismay died. Lord Pirrie put pressure on young Ismay to accept Morgan's offer to buy White Star. In 1902, Morgan's company known as International Mercantile Marine or IMM acquired the White Star Line.
In 1906, Cunard built two liners named Lusitania and Mauretania.
In the summer of 1907, this led Pirrie and J Bruce Ismay using a sketch pad to lay the groundwork for ships that would be the largest in the world. The two men had a shipyard and drydock capable of building three liners that would eclipse Cunard.
These three liners would offer weekly east and west bound travel and offer cargo and passenger capacity twice that of Cunard ships.
The names of these three liners were to be the Olympic, Titanic and the Gigantic.


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