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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.
Senator William Alden Smith chaired the inquiry. 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 ...
Though cleared of blame by the official British inquiry, Ismay never recovered from the Titanic disaster. Already emotionally repressed and insecure before his voyage on Titanic, [33] the tragedy sent him into a state of deep depression from which he never truly emerged. [34] He kept a low profile afterwards.
Through the American commission of inquiry devoted to the sinking, Senator William Alden Smith openly attacked the very principle of the company and Morgan. [23] As had been arranged before Titanic sank, J. Bruce Ismay retired as president of IMM in 1913 and was succeeded by Harold Sanderson [24] Morgan died on 31 March 1913. [25]
Ismay testified that Wilde was the officer who was in charge of collapsible C. [15] Major Arthur Godfrey Peuchen of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club had just reached the boat deck and saw a group of about 100 stokers with their kit bags, seemingly crowding the whole deck in front of the boats; unlike many of the passengers, these men had come up ...
The film centers around the United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic, from April 19 and May 25, first in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, and then the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. [1] The purpose of the hearings was to provide a platform for truth and justice to be served, as well as clarify the sequence of events.
James Cameron, director of the blockbuster Titanic and a deep-sea submersible designer himself, likened the Titan tragedy in which five people died this week to the sinking of the ill-fated ocean ...
The British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry found that other ships in the area continued to hear broken or unintelligible CQD and SOS calls from Titanic after the last message Cottam received, but all signals cut off abruptly at 2:17 a.m., three minutes before Titanic disappeared under the water. [12]