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Message: [QUOTE="Martin Pirrie, post: 326653, member: 143420"] I have looked a little deeper into whether the news of Titanic’s sinking was withheld from Lord Pirrie. I don’t believe so. Lord P was at the launching of Titanic and he was on the maiden voyage of Olympic to Southampton, on the same day, with J. Bruce Ismay and J. Pierpoint Morgan. So he was reasonably well. From, “Titanic - Belfast’s Own”, we read that Lord P had received a letter from David Galloway on board the SS Lapland, en-route to Southampton from New York, describing how Thomas Andrews was last seen helping people into the remaining lifeboats. Lord P wrote to Thomas Andrews’ mother (Lord P’s sister) “A finer fellow than Tommie never lived, and by his death - unselfishly beautiful to the last - we are bereft of the strong young life upon which such reliance had come to be placed by us elders who loved and needed him". From its tone, this letter appears to have been written after Galloway’s letter and Lord P seems to have known of the sinking as soon as anyone else. Martin Pirrie. [/QUOTE]