i do think ismay had some part in it but not that much smith was retireing after this so i don't think ismay had that much influince on the matter as the captian his frist duty was to the passengers on the ship not to ismay but he should have slowed down but he lit the last 3 boilers that was his call it was his ego plus they made him a hero by going down with her but he took in my eyes the cowards way out he knew he was ruiend that's why he went down with her even today if u wreck a ship your done and he wrecked two the olypic twice and almost the titanic twice i mean come on u would think a captian of 30 years would have learnd from the hawke but he did almost the same thing with titanic