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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
In 1912, Mersey received his greatest fame when he was appointed by Lord Loreburn, the Lord Chancellor in the government of H. H. Asquith, to head the inquiry commission into the sinking of RMS Titanic. There was some criticism of his handling of the inquiry.
Presiding over the contentious proceedings was Lord Mersey, who had previously presided over the SOLAS summit the year before, and had headed the official inquiries into a number of significant steamship tragedies, including that of Titanic. The following year, he would lead the inquiry into the sinking of Lusitania.
The report of the British Court of Inquiry on the sinking of the Titanic, signed by the Chairman Lord Mersey, was presented to British Parliament after hearing testimony from 97 witnesses over 38 days. The Court concluded that the cause of the disaster "was due to collision with an iceberg, brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship ...
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.
The company that operated the Titan released a promo video boasting about its “very safe” submersible just weeks before the vessel catastrophically imploded.
Presiding over the contentious proceedings was Lord Mersey, who had previously presided over the SOLAS summit the year before, and had headed the official inquiries into a number of significant steamship tragedies, including that of Titanic. The following year, he would lead the inquiry into the sinking of Lusitania.
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