Titanic 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...
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
	MAJOR ARTHUR PEUCHEN AT THE US INQUIRY Awaiting His Opportunity To Testify...	23rd 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 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....
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
	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
	SENATOR W. A. SMITH From a French paper, May 1912...	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
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
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
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
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	WAS IT REALLY TITANIC THAT SANK? An event like the Titanic disaster will always attract conspiracy theories but can we really believe that the ship that struck the iceberg on that fateful night wasn't, in fact, the Titanic at all? In Robin Gardiner's detailed book, Titanic: The Ship that Never Sank?, he claims that the loss of the ship was the result of an insurance claim that went badly wrong. Imagine, if you will, that the Titanic's near identical sister ship The Olympic was severely damaged in a collision while sailing from Southampton. The cruiser HMS Hawke smashed into the side of the Olympic and an inquiry later exonerated the Hawke of all blame....	24th March 2012
New York Times	CONSULT BURKE'S PEERAGE For News of the Arrival Here of the Sister of Mrs. Elinor Glyn --- Lady Duff Gordon, a sister of Mrs. Elinor Glyn, arrived yesterday at the Hotel Plaza. Lady Duff Gordon went to her room. Presently Mrs. Glyn approached the inquir...	21st November 1907
New York Times	LORD MERSEY DIES IN HIS 90TH YEAR Regarded as the Grand Old Man of the English Legal Profession --- HEADED SHIPPING INQUIRIES --- Presided at Investigation into the Lusitania, Titanic and Other Disasters --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES...	4th September 1929
New York Times	TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o...	12th January 1965
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
Chicago American	LOSES FAMILY BY WRECK Nels Paulsson, a Chicago man living at 940 Thompson street, had learned to-day that he had lost his wife and four little children in the Titanic disaster. Although he knew that his family had embarked on the boat he had delayed making inquiry...	21st April 1912
Worcester Telegram	NO SIGN OF WRECK Article...	18th April 1912
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
New York Times	CHICAGO'S GLAZERS ACCUSED ON PRICES Federal Indictments Charge Industry Joined in Fixing a Common Schedule --- UNION AS THE ENFORCER --- Fifth Action in Investigation of Building Trades Cites Seven Corporations --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES...	11th May 1940
	CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton......
New York Times	DEATH OF BOYS HELD ACCIDENT BY NORRIS Medical Examiner Announces Finding After Iquiry Into Waldman Tragedy --- HEARS SEVEN WITNESSES --- Absolves Police for Moving Bodies and Says Their Inquiry Was Thorough --- WORKER TELLS OF FALL ---...	25th October 1928
Titanic Research	ICE ON DECK Henning Pfeifer Further analysis of the iceberg impact....	12th February 2002
	GENERAL INFORMATION HARRIS, MRS. IRENE R, (NEE WALLACH). Saved in Lifeboat D. Cabin C83. European address - c/o Fraulein Woolf, Kapellenstrasse 81, Wiesbaden. Germany. (Born 15th June 1876, died 2nd September 1969). Buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale...
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
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
Southern Daily Echo	LINK WITH THE TITANIC: DEATH OF LOOK-OUT MAN AT SOUTHAMPTON A notable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by death at the Sailors' Home at Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) yesterday afternoon. Le...	8th August 1913
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
Hampshire Advertiser	LINK WITH TITANIC - DEATH OF THE LOOK-OUT MAN AT SOUTHAMPTON A noticeable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by the death at the Sailors’ Home Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) on Friday afternoo...	9th August 1913
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
Press Association	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ACCOUNT FETCHES £20,000 A woman's account of escaping the sinking Titanic in 1912 sold for £20,000 at auction. Laura Francatelli from London said she heard an "awful rumbling" as the liner went down and "then came screams and cries&...	20th October 2010
Titanic Review	TITANIC : HER JOURNEY Tom Insley This beautifully-presented app is a must-have for any Titanic buff!...	26th March 2012
Chorley Guardian	THE TITANIC DISASTER: A NATIVE OF CHORLEY SAVED Mr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the second officer of the ill-fated Titanic, who is among those who were saved, is a native of Chorley. He is the son of Mr. Fred J. Lightoller, and was born in 1874, receiving his education at the Chorley Grammar S...	27th April 1912
Southampton Times and Hampshire Express	MR. C. H. LIGHTOLLER, THE SECOND OFFICER Mr. C. H. Lightoller, the second officer on the ill-fated Titanic, who is reported to be among the survivors, lived at Netley Abbey, and on Wednesday one of our representatives called on his wife at their residence at Hound to convey congratula...	20th April 1912
New York Times	CLEARS HOTEL MEN IN PALM BEACH FIRE Florida Commissioner After Inquiry Says That They Provided All Necessary Safeguards --- GUESTS’ LOSS $2,000,000 --- Thousands of Dollars in Scattered Belongings Reclaimed---First of Victims Arrive HERE --- Special to ...	21st March 1925
The Times	THE TITANIC: MR ISMAY'S RETURN The Adriatic arrived at Liverpool on Saturday with Mr Bruce Ismay and other survivors of the disaster to the Titanic on board. A large crowd had assembled at the landing stage to meet the vessel. One of the White Star Company&rsq...	13th May 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker was born in Patten Street, West Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on August 3, 1878, went to sea at age 11, later becoming chief baker on various White Star Line steamships. After surviving ...
	FRIENDS FOR LIFE Randy Bryan Bigham Fifty-five year old Ella White, the wealthy widow of a Manhattan businessman, was short and stout with an outspoken, often brash personality. Her companion, Marie Grice Young, 36, tall, slim and soft-spoken, was a music teacher from Washington. The p...

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