Talk:Charles Alfred Bartlett

Titanic and Commodore

Bartlett (who at the time was White Star's marine superintendent at Belfast) was not Titanic's commander during the Belfast to Southampton delivery trip. The ship's sign-in sheets, which appear in Stephen Cameron's Titanic: Belfast's Own, show that Herbert Haddock signed on as Titanic's master on 25 March 1912 and he supervised the crew assembling at Belfast. E. J. Smith then signed on on 30 March and was in command for both the sea trials and the delivery trip. And neither Bartlett nor Smith was White Star's Commodore; that title went unused from 1887, when Hamilton Perry was sacked until 1922, when it was resurrected for Sir Bertram Hayes when he took over Majestic II. Hayes discusses the history of the title and the fact that it was unused from 1887 to 1922 in his autobiography, Hull Down.Mab819c (talk) 06:37, 9 November 2011 (UTC)