compensation

From her 1913 compensation claim against the White Star Line

The Black Star Line How the So-Called White Star Line Haggles with Bereaved Relatives of Titanic Victims... We have no hesitation in characterising the conduct of Messrs. Ismay, Imrie and Co. as brutal and heartless. John Bull Sat, 06 Jul 1912

I noticed that quite a number of 1st class passengers who sailed on the troubled voyage of the Olympic to England in late Feb 1912 would later return to America just weeks later on the Titanic. The odd thing is, that crossing in late Feb was almost a disaster as the Olympic lost a blade and the...

Piecing together this huge jigsaw puzzle on the Relief Fund is becoming an occupational hazardous. The same goes when I am delving with my own research as I vigorously keep to a regime on how I was taught many years ago - Leave no stones unturned! To think if I hadn't gone upstairs to my...

i just got frankie goldsmiths book and there are letters in it from rosa abbott but she singed her name rhoda. and her last name was williams. but in miss gellers book she claims rosas last name was smith. does anyone know what the truth is. is is a mistake or was her husbands name williams and...

ECHO OF TITANIC DISASTER Judge Thomas at Liverpool County Court today decided that the Titanic's bandsmen did not come under the Workmen's Compensation Act. (Waterford News, November 1, 1912 p.5)

Were the passengers on Titanic who lost loved ones or belongings given money or compensation for it, or just left to deal with it on their own?

Text Hello all, was jsut pondering the thought with a friend of mine, and beings we are both so ill-informed on the matter, i thought it would be best to leave it to the experts out here. But taking into account knows WSL faults leading to the accidents, what in your opinion would have been...

Couldn't see that this has been posted before. Here is a thoughtfully constructed site for the witness testimonies in this case. http://web.archive.org/web/20190428060708/http://titanic.andersonkill.com/witness.htm