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Another major conflict surrounding Titanic is who the blame goes to for the sinking of the ship. This is important because there are still debates today for who truly contributed for Titanic to sink.

Captain & Crew

     Who was blamed:

Captain-Edward J. Smith was blamed for allowing Titanic to sail full speed ahead, which caused it to be hard to stop Titanic once the iceberg was spotted. The captain wanted to win the speed record, however, it put him in conflict with the safety of the ship. In addition, he was blamed for ignoring seven iceberg warnings from other nearby ships.

Shipbuilders-Harland and Wolff, could have used stronger iron rivets/bolts to build ship with, which would have held the ship together better during the collision. The shipbuilders used less strong materials because of money issues and they wanted to finish the ship as soon as possible. This created a conflict with manufacturing standards.

Bruce Ismay-designer, was believed to have put pressure on the Captain to ignore the iceberg warnings and to try and make record time to New York . Because he wanted to make record time he was in conflict with the safety of the ship, and colliding with an iceberg.                                                                                                         

Captain Lord-was captain of nearby ship, Carpathia, when Titanic was sinking. He was blamed for having his radio off so that his ship was unable to pick up the distress call from Titanic. If his radio had been on, radio operators from Carpathia would have received the distress call and could have rescued most everyone from Titanic. His command to have all wireless radios off put him in conflict with the safety of the passengers aboard Titanic.

Thomas Andrews-was the ship's architect, and was blamed for insufficient amount of lifeboats on board. Many more lifeboats could have been used, however, Thomas Andrews did not want to use more so the deck space would not look crowded. (historyonthenet.com) In addition, he believed that no lifeboats would be needed to be used because everyone thought the ship was "unsinkable." His design put him in conflict with passenger's safety, which turned out to be extremely unfortunate.