Just been reading Alexander Carlise's BOT Inquiry testimony starting at:
http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq20Carlisle01.php
Is it just me, or did it seem like Alex was uncomfortable in the hot seat, judging by how long it took for Mersey and his assessors to get to the point with him? It makes his testimony frustrating to read.
Yet there is a gem in it:
The bit about the 1911 BOT conference on lifeboats Carlise participated in that he was "very soft" at when it came to signing the reccomendations that actually would have reduced the number of lifeboats on British merchant ships, despite his spoken opinion at the conference that the new liners Olympic and Titanic had far too few boats.
Anyone know if documentation from that BOT meeting still exists? Surely there is more data on it than in the few pertinent parts of Carlise's testimony?
Would be a gem of a find, the minutes from the days Carlise was present.
Richard Krebes
"When truth goes out the window, we all lose something." -General James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle
http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq20Carlisle01.php
Is it just me, or did it seem like Alex was uncomfortable in the hot seat, judging by how long it took for Mersey and his assessors to get to the point with him? It makes his testimony frustrating to read.
Yet there is a gem in it:
The bit about the 1911 BOT conference on lifeboats Carlise participated in that he was "very soft" at when it came to signing the reccomendations that actually would have reduced the number of lifeboats on British merchant ships, despite his spoken opinion at the conference that the new liners Olympic and Titanic had far too few boats.
Anyone know if documentation from that BOT meeting still exists? Surely there is more data on it than in the few pertinent parts of Carlise's testimony?
Would be a gem of a find, the minutes from the days Carlise was present.
Richard Krebes
"When truth goes out the window, we all lose something." -General James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle