 Captain Luce, who was generally exonerated from blame by the public, retired from the sea; some of the crew survivors chose not to return to the US.The Collins Line continued its transatlantic service, until further maritime losses and insolvency led to its closure in 1858.James Brown, president of Brown Brothers bank and the Collins Line, erected a grand monument in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, to the six members of his family lost in the "Arctic" disaster.