Which White Star Line chairman survived the Titanic sinking?

J. Bruce Ismay was the White Star Line chairman who survived the Titanic sinking.

Joseph Bruce Ismay was chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, the company that owned Titanic. He was also president of the International Mercantile Marine Company, its American-controlled parent organization. As the highest-ranking White Star official aboard, his presence on the maiden voyage attracted intense scrutiny after the disaster.

Ismay survived by entering Collapsible C, one of the last lifeboats to leave the ship, on the starboard side. Newspapers portrayed him as a coward for surviving while women and children remained aboard, but the British inquiry found that he had helped passengers and crew before taking a place when no women or children were waiting nearby. The inquiry did not find evidence that he had ordered Captain Edward Smith to increase Titanic's speed.

A common mix-up is confusing Ismay with J. P. Morgan, the financier who controlled IMM but was not aboard Titanic, or Lord Pirrie, the Harland and Wolff chairman who helped oversee the ship's construction. Ismay resigned from his company positions in 1913 and lived until 1937.