Very flatering lol, I thank you for your words . To put the blame souly on one individual is not going to acheive anything, it is very easy to blame the vilinised Ismay, or even smith for the sinking. It was a catalogue of many error's but one of the most major failings I feel was that of the calafornian's operator. As the operator's on the Titanic where busy working, being interupted wouldnt go down well, however for emergency message's there should be an encryption (or something like that as far as I know), to show how urgent the message is. He failed to do that, so if anyone is to blame it was his incompitence not doing his job properly. But again, that's a bit harsh, and he could not forsee a huge ice berg infront of the Titanic now could he? The loss of life was a series of error's which began at harland and wolf and ended that night. All coming together to sink the ship. So to my mind atleast, no single figure is to blame.

Martyn