British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry opens in London

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1. Story
2. Lord Mersey took his seat at the London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate. The inquiry sat for 36 days, heard 97 witnesses and put more than 25,000 questions, with the Board of Trade — the regulator whose own lifeboat rules were at issue — as the convening authority.
3. Knowledge
4. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
5. Board of Trade Life-Saving Appliances Rules (1894)
6. British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry opens in London
7. Connections
8. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
9. Board of Trade Life-Saving Appliances Rules (1894)
10. SS Californian
11. RMS Titanic
12. Board of Trade Life-Saving Appliances Rules (1894)
13. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
14. British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry opens in London
15. Mersey report published
16. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
17. Titanic's lifeboat complement
18. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1914
19. British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry opens in London
20. Mersey report published
21. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London
22. Evidence
23. Found the loss due to collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was navigated; recorded the ship's particulars, the voyage timings, the ice messages received and the lifeboat complement; held that Titanic exceeded the Board of Trade requirement; found the Californian could have reached her; concluded (incorrectly) that the hull sank intact.