Senate Inquiry

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	SENATE INQUIRY SUMMONS Summons ordering Able Seaman Thomas Jones to attend the Senate Sub-Committee inquiry into the Titanic disaster...
Je Sais Tout	GUGLIELMO MARCONI About eighteen months after this picture was taken, Marconi would be a key witness at the Senate enquiry into the loss of the Titanic....	15th December 1910
	TITANIC INQUIRY PROJECT The site contains the complete transcripts of both the US Senate and British Board of Trade inquiries into the disaster, along with their final reports....
Chicago Examiner	NOT LOCKED IN CABIN ON CARPATHIA, SAYS ISMAY I know that my personal conduct has been made the subject of a lot of unfavorable comment, and I court the fullest inquiry at the hands of your committee or any one else who has the right to ask such questions. So far as the Carpathia is ...	1st May 1912
The Toronto World	THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee: "I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat." "I did not see what happened to the lifeboats...	20th April 1912
The Evening Telegram	THE SECOND OFFICER LIGHTHOLDER [sic] The man who directed Major Peuchen to enter the Titanic lifeboat. Telling of his own escape before the Senate Inquiry, he was asked: "Did you leave the sh...	22nd April 1912
	SENATOR W. A. SMITH From a French paper, May 1912...	1912
Chicago Daily Journal	ISMAY TIRED TO ESCAPE ON CEDRIC, WIRELESS SHOWS Explanation of why Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, chairman of the senate committee named to investigate the Titanic disaster, hurried to New York Thursday night to begin the inquiry was made today when it became known that a wir...	20th April 1912
Berkshire Chronicle	DETAINED AT WASHINGTON Detained at Washington. Among those who were expected to have arrived home on the Lapland was Mr, Frederick Dent Ray, of 'Akbar' 56 palmer Park Avenue, Reading. Mr Ray, who was a steward on the Titanic, cabled home to his relatives informing them...	29th April 1912
New York Times	FOR BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL Senate Proposal Thus to Honor TItanic Victims Goes Over --- WASHINGTON, June 8---An effort was made in the Senate to-day to have adopted a resolution granting authority to erect on public land in Washington a joint memorial to the mem...	9th June 1912
New York Times	FOR BUTT-MILLET TITANIC MEMORIAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 22---The House Committee on Library favorably reported to-day the Senate joint resolution to authorize the erection of a drinking fountain in this city as a joint memorial to Major Archibald W. Butt and Francis Millet, who we...	23rd August 1912
Wiltshire Gazette and Herald	A RARE LOT OF TITANIC ARTEFACTS GO ON SALE IN DEVIZES More rare artefacts connected with the sinking of SS Titanic will go on sale at Devizes auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son on Saturday. Following the sale in May of a 32ft plan of the ship used at the public inquiry into the disaster, which fetched a record-breaking £220,000, a companion plan, also used at the inquiry, is expected to reach £40,000 to £60,000. This plan, created for the inquiry by the White Star Line, owners of the Titanic, portrays the mid section of the ship and one notation says “approximate mean draft at time of accident”. ...	27th October 2011
Dowagiac Daily News	BISHOPS GO BEFORE SENATE BOARD OF INQUIRY TO GIVE STORY OF TITANIC DISASTER Both Are Called to Stand At Washington on Tuesday PUSHED TO SAFETY Mrs. Bishop Tells How They Were Hurried Aboard the Lifers When the Titanic Struck Huge Berg --------------- Mr. and Mrs....	26th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC : A NICE LITTLE EARNER The Americans seem to think that anything connected with the Titanic is potentially a nice little earner. The latest idea is to raise artefacts from the Carpathia, the ship which rescued 705 from the Titanic.In 1912, the year the Titanic went down, the United States Senate passed a joint resolution extending the thanks of Congress and appropriating $$1000 for a gold medal to Captain Rostron of the Carpathia and a vote of thanks to the Carpathia crew. The Senate Commerce Committee in May 1912 deemed the course followed by Captain Rostron as deserving of the highest praise and worthy of special recognition. ...	26th January 2006
	MAJOR ARTHUR PEUCHEN AT THE US INQUIRY Awaiting His Opportunity To Testify...	23rd April 1912
Washington Post	SEAT IN U.S. SENATE CHIEF AMBITION OF NOTED SOCIETY WOMAN FROM COLORADO Mrs. J.J. Brown, a Favorite in Smart Set and Politics Mrs. J.J. Brown of Denver, a possible candidate for the United States Senate, is shown above with her niece, Miss Helen Tobin, who recently created a sensation in her J...	26th July 1914
Chicago American	ISMAY ASKS TO LEAVE THE WRECK PROBE Washington, April 24---The Senate investigating committee probing the Titanic horror today declined to act on a new request by J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, that owned the ill-fated ship, to quit t...	24th April 1912
Lincoln Daily News	MAJOR BUTT DESTROYED PAPERS Mrs. Cassebeer statement...	29th April 1912
	CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton......
Washington Times	HERBERT J. PITMAN Third Officer of the Titanic who Testified Before Senate Investigating Committee Today...	23rd April 1912
The Evening Post	BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...	2nd May 1912
Chicago Examiner	INVESTIGATORS SEND TUG 25 MILES DOWN HARBOR TO TAKE SAILOR OFF LINER; INQUIRY GOES TO WASHINGTON TO PREVENT TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES. New York, April 20---The Senate committee appointed to investigate the sinking of the liner Titanic closed a day of unearthing developments of supreme importance by having Quartermaster Hichens of the Titanic taken from the outgoing liner Lapland ...	21st April 1912
Daily Sketch	THE SURVIVING OFFICERS OF THE TITANIC The surviving officers of the Titanic - Messrs. Lightoller, Lowe, Boxhall and Pitman - reached Liverpool by the same ship as Mr. Ismay - the Adriatic. The fifth officer, Mr. Lowe, who told the American Court of Inquiry that he asked Mr. Is...	13th May 1912
Chicago Tribune	LONDON PAPERS ATTACK SMITH Several more papers severely attack the American inquiry. The Standard says Senator Smith "is rather less qualified for such a task than any individual picked up in an American street car." The Morning Post...	26th April 1912
Daily Graphic	HERBERT PITMAN AND CHARLES LIGHTOLLER AT THE BRITISH INQUIRY	May 1912
The Shere	QUARTERMASTER ROBERT HICHENS GIVES EVIDENCE AT THE BRITISH INQUIRY	10th May 1912
Titanic Research	NAVIGATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF TITANIC'S CQD POSITION Captain Lewis Marmaduke Collins On September 1, 1985, an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard located the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor in position 41° 43.9’ N., 49° 56.8’ W., some thirteen miles east of where she had reportedly foundered. Shortly after t...	7th November 2002
	TITANIC AFTERMATH - A PLAY IN THREE ACTS Authored by Michael B. Wehrli, Michael B. Wehrli Based on the Senate Hearing transcrip...
Washington Herald	ISMAY OUTLINES VIEW OF WRECK Head of White Star Line, Under Guard, Makes First Statement --- New York, April 18---Mr. J. Bruce Ismay left the ship at about 11:15 o’clock to-night and went to the rear of the dock where the offices of the Cunard Line are located. He...	19th April 1912
Titanic Review	TITANIC : HER JOURNEY Tom Insley This beautifully-presented app is a must-have for any Titanic buff!...	26th March 2012
Telegraph.co.uk	RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION A rusty key, which enabled the Titanic's crew to try to rescue hundreds of mail bags from the sinking ship, is expected to fetch more than £50,000 at an upcoming auction.The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could start unloading the mail from the bowels of the ship....	11th April 2009
telegraph.co.uk	THE TITANIC SANK INTO THE DEPTHS OF HUMANKIND In Belfast yesterday, they put out at City Hall a plan of the RMS Titanic, drawn for the Board of Trade inquiry into its sinking, at 2.20am on April 15, 1912, in mid-Atlantic with the deaths of 1517 passengers and crew. Those statistics chill us still. ......	23rd April 2011
New York Times	CONGRESS THANKS ROSTRON Bill Providing for Gold Medal to Captain Goes to Taft --- WASHINGTON, July 1---The thanks of Congress are conveyed to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron and the officers and crew of the liner Carpathia, for their rescue of 704 survivors of the Tit...	2nd July 1912
The Times	THE TITANIC INQUIRY: LADY DUFF GORDON'S EVIDENCE The inquiry into the loss of the Titanic was resumed yesterday by Lord Mersey and his Assessors. There was no diminution in the public interest taken in the proceedings. Among those present were Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, Lady St. Helier, L...	21st May 1912
New York Times	J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...	19th October 1937
independent.co.uk	£220000 FOR TITANIC PLAN A plan of the Titanic used in the inquiry into the sinking of the ship in 1912 has sold for what is believed to be a world record price for memorabilia of the doomed boat. The 33ft (10m) hand-drawn plan, estimated to fetch between ......	30th May 2011
Daily Home News	HOME NEWS GAVE CITY FIRST NEWS OF CARPATHIA'S LANDING New Brunswick received the news of the landing of the Carpathia with the rescued Titanic passengers, from the Home News last night. The details of the landing and the passengers’ stories of the disaster, were wired to this office direct, and other bu...	19th April 1912
gazetteandherald.co.uk	IT'S A TITANIC PRICE AT DEVIZES dA plan of the doomed liner Titanic sold for £220000 at a Devizes auction on Saturday - twice its estimate. The huge drawing, which was used at the public inquiry into the 1912 sinking of the 'unsinkable' liner, was expected to fetch ......	2nd June 2011
New York Times	SENATORS GREET ROSTRON Hero of Titanic Disaster Warmly Welcomed in Congress --- WASHINGTON, Dec. 9---Capt. Arthur S. [sic] Rostron, who drove the steamship Carpathia at full speed through a sea of icebergs to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaste...	10th December 1912
Titanic Research	LOADING THE REAR BOATS George Jacub While working on a major project involving the Titanic, I ran into a snag. I thought I could unravel the problem by examining the order the rear boats were loaded and lowered. The answer helped, though less than I had hoped. But I was sti...	29th May 2008
thespec.com	TITANIC SURVIVOR MAJ. ARTHUR PEUCHEN WAS SCORNED BACK HOME Maj. Arthur Peuchen was barely installed in his suite at the Waldorf Astoria when he began regaling newspaper reporters with vivid tales of his escape and scathing denunciations of Titanic’s captain, Edward John Smith, and of the White Star Line’s managing director, J. Bruce Ismay, whom he accused of “criminal negligence. “I cannot repeat too strongly that J. Bruce Ismay knew of the presence of icebergs, but deliberately took a chance, for reasons which he can best explain.” Peuchen became a star witness at the ensuing U.S. Senate investigation of the Titanic horror. By then, he’d toned down his criticism of Capt. Smith, but not much else....	14th March 2012
New York Times	LINER DID NOT SPEED, ISMAY DECLARES Not the Custom of the White Star Line to Try to Break Records --- TOOK LAST BOAT, HE SAYS --- Awakened by Crash --- Doesn't Know About Bulkheads --- Ship Sank in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes --- ...	19th April 1912
Discovery Channel News	TITANIC LETTER RECOUNTS HORROR The darkness and terror on the night the Titanic sank are described in a letter, released yesterday, written by survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli shortly after the disaster.The letter, along with her official affidavit during a subsequent legal inquiry and her life preserver, will be sold at a Christie's auction on May 16. The life preserver was signed by men and women aboard the ...	13th April 2007
Graphic	SKETCH OF HAROLD LOWE Fifth Officer attends New York Inquiry...	11th May 1912
New York Times	HORSEWOMEN IN PARADE Mrs. Burleson, Wife of Army Officer In Command of Suffrage Pageant --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, Jan. 10---A cavalcade of horsewomen is to lead the woman's suffrage parade, or p...	11th April 1913
	BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to...	11th July 1912
Southampton Echo	TITANIC SURVIVOR FOUND HANGED Mr. Frederick Fleet (76), Titanic survivor-the lookout who said at the Inquiry he could have saved the disaster-was found dead, hanged, at his home in Norman-road, Freemantle, Southampton, yesterday. His brother-in-law with whom he lived, Mr. ...	11th January 1965
New York Times	FOR BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL Fountain to Titanic Victims to be Erected Near White House --- WASHINGTON, Oct. 23---Plans will be completed in the near future for the dedication of a fountain erected south of the White House in honor of the memories ...	24th October 1913
Titanic Research	GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC Earl Chapman Were shots fired as the Titanic went down? If so whom and toward whom?...	30th July 2001
Daily Telegraph	FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN" A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four...	3rd July 1913

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