Catching the last part of my roommate's Titanic, I saw the ship's captain choosing to go down with the ship.
When did this act become the honorable thing to do for ship commanders, and why?
You might be interested in these older threads.
Was "The Captain goes down with the ship" more a historial saying than practice, or does it have more of a realistic application in some maritime settings?
Who took priority on a sinking ship? An upper class man or a lower class woman or child?
Did all captains go down with their ships?
Why did "The captain always go down with his ship"? How did the notion become popular?