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Dated April 20, 1912, the front page of British newspaper The Daily Mirror shows two women in Southampton - the English port city from where the Titanic set sail - waiting for a list of survivors ...
The Attorney General, Sir Rufus Isaacs, presented the inquiry with a list of 26 key questions to be answered. When news of the disaster reached the UK government the responsibility for initiating an inquiry lay with the Board of Trade, the organisation responsible for British maritime regulations and whose inspectors had certified Titanic as seaworthy before her maiden voyage.
At the time of her entry into service on 2 April 1912, the Titanic was the second of three [b] Olympic-class ocean liners, and was the largest ship in the world. She and the earlier RMS Olympic were almost one and a half times the gross register tonnage of Cunard's RMS Lusitania and RMS Mauretania , the previous record holders, and were nearly ...
The sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 14–15, 1912 resulted in an inquiry by a subcommittee of the Commerce Committee of the United States Senate, chaired by Senator William Alden Smith. The hearings began in New York on April 19, 1912, later moving to Washington, D.C., concluding on May 25, 1912 with a return visit to New York.
Like the disaster that inspired both Titan’s name and journey, last week’s submersible disaster captured the world. Millions waited with bated breath to learn the fate of the sub’s five ...
The tragic sinking of the Titanic and loss of life exposed flaws in how breaking news was reported 110 years ago. The Titanic sank 110 years ago. An Indy newspaper got the story very wrong.
She wrote primarily for the Paris editions of the New York Herald and the Chicago Tribune, and also contributed to the New York Times and as a radio correspondent for NBC News. Birkhead launched her career as a journalist when, as a passenger on the RMS Carpathia, the ship came to the sinking Titanic's rescue in 1912. [2]
The Titanic sank April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. More than 1,500 people died. ... the Titanic is still news ...