James Gordon Partridge Bisset

Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset (15 July 1883 – 28 March 1967) was a British merchant sea captain who served as Commodore of the Cunard White Star Line (1944–47), commanding Cunard liners RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth during World War II. He was notably also second officer aboard RMS Carpathia the night it went to rescue the survivors of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Bisset documented his fifty-year sea career in a three-volume autobiography: Sail Ho! My Early Years at Sea (1958); Tramps and Ladies – My Early Years in Steamers (1959) and Commodore – War, Peace and Big Ships (1961). In addition, he authored Lifeboat Efficiency (1924) which became the primary text used by the British Merchant Navy until the World War II for instructing merchant seaman in lifeboat utilization and handling, and Ship Ahoy! Nautical Notes for Ocean Travellers (1930), a treatise on shipboard operations for the edification of passengers.