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Complete transcripts of the inquiry and report are available at British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry(Titanic Inquiry Project) Archived 21 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine; Mersey, Lord (1999) [1912]. The Loss of the Titanic, 1912. The Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-11-702403-8
John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, PC (3 August 1840 – 3 September 1929) was a British jurist and politician. After early success as a lawyer and a less successful spell as a politician, he was appointed a judge and worked in commercial law.
The report was strongly critical of established seafaring practices and the roles that Titanic ' s builders, owners, officers and crew had played in contributing to the disaster. It highlighted the arrogance and complacency that had been prevalent aboard the ship and more generally in the shipping industry and the British Board of Trade. [ 26 ]
Viscount Mersey, of Toxteth in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1916 for the lawyer and politician John Bigham, 1st Baron Mersey . He had already been created Baron Mersey , of Toxteth in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in 1910, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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Titan sub victims spent last moments listening to music and watching sea creatures. Monday 3 July 2023 23:30, Andrea Blanco. Passengers on board the sunk Titan submersible likely spent their final ...
A Titanic-themed episode of the science fiction television series Voyagers! portrayed Ismay dressing as a woman in order to sneak into a lifeboat. Lord Mersey , who led the 1912 British inquiry into the sinking of Titanic , concluded that Ismay had helped many other passengers before finding a place for himself on the last lifeboat to leave the ...
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