United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic

Assembled from 54 blocks · 1 evidence · 61 related

1. Story
2. Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee chaired by Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, convened at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on 19 April 1912 — the morning after Carpathia docked — specifically to hold British witnesses before they could sail home. It moved to Washington, heard 82 witnesses and reported on 28 May 1912. It faulted the Californian, the absence of lifeboat drill and of a continuous wireless watch, and a boat capacity sufficient for barely half those aboard.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
6. Captain Stanley Lord
7. Connections
8. RMS Titanic
9. Captain Stanley Lord
10. US Senate inquiry opens at the Waldorf-Astoria
11. US Senate report submitted
12. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
13. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
14. Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
15. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
16. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
17. Titanic wreck site
18. Captain Edward John Smith
19. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
20. Thomas Andrews
21. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
22. Titanic's lifeboat complement
23. Olympic-class liner
24. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
25. Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
26. RMS Carpathia
27. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
28. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
29. Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
30. Titanic launched at Belfast
31. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
32. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
33. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
34. Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
35. Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
36. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
37. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
38. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
39. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
40. Iceberg sighted and struck
41. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
42. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
43. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
44. Last boat launched from the davits
45. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
46. Titanic founders
47. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
48. Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
49. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
50. SS Californian
51. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
52. Mersey report published
53. Evidence
54. Criticised the Californian's failure to respond to rockets, the absence of lifeboat drill and of a continuous wireless watch, and the inadequacy of lifeboat provision; recommended lifeboat seats for every person carried.