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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.
Carter was controversial as a male survivor of the Titanic, in part because he got in the last lifeboat with Ismay, who many thought should have gone down with his company's ship. On April 22, 1912, Carter defended himself and Ismay, saying: "The statements which have been made by Mr. Ismay's conduct are an injustice to him. …
Drawing from the 1912 book Wreck and sinking of the Titanic criticising Ismay by comparing his survival to a list of notable individuals who perished with Titanic. After the disaster, Ismay was savaged by both the American and the British press for deserting the ship while women and children were still on board.
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 ...
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 ...
Escape The Titanic is the latest hidden object/puzzle mobile game to make a big splash in the iOS App Store (pun intended). Like most games of its kind, though, it's easy to get stuck and be ...
Encyclopedia Titanica contains a wide range of information about the ship, her passengers and a variety of related subjects. Each passenger and crew member has a separate page containing at least basic biographical data, and many of these contain detailed biographies, photographs and contemporary news articles.