man who was by turns charming and monstrous. Maxwell ran his home, Headington Hill House, as though he were the ruler of a small province, controlling the decisions and behaviour of his nine children and receiving unconditional devotion from the wife he would ridicule in public. In 1968, he gave an interview in The Times where he explained that he did not have good working relations with men because ‘they tend to be too independent. Men like to have individuality.’ What Maxwell was looking for, he said, was not a man with a mind of his own but ‘an extension of the boss’.
19 Andrew Saint, Richard Norman Shaw (New Haven, 1976), p. 261.
20 Ibid.
21 I bid.
22 Lt Colonel Frank Bustard, Titanic Commutator, June 1974.
23 Basil Sanderson, Ships and Sealing Wax: The Memoirs of Basil, Lord Sanderson of Ayot (Heinemann, 1967), p. 2.
24 Truth, 12 April 1888.
25 Sanderson, Ships and Sealing Wax, p. ii.
26 Pauline Matarasso, A Voyage Closed and Done (Michael Russell, 2005), p. 17.
27 Ibid.
28 Twenty-seven of Margaret Ismay’s pocket diaries are kept in the Ismay archive at the National Maritime Museum.
29 Quoted in Paul Louden-Brown, The White Star Line: An Illustrated History 1870–1934 (Ship Pictorial, 1991), p. v.
30 US Senate Inquiry Proceedings, ‘There is nobody left in the firm except myself. It is practically a dead letter now to all intents and purposes.’
31 Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (Random House, 1999), p. x.
32 Ibid., p. 394.
33 Ibid., p. 474.
34 Ibid., p. 467.
35 Albert Ballin to the German Embassy in London, quoted in Strouse, p. 463.
36 LMQ/3/6.
37 Strouse, Morgan: American Financier, p. 463.
38 Ibid., p. 477.
39 Alan Frederick Lewis, The Great Pierpont Morgan (Gollancz, 1949), p. 282.
40 Oldham, The Ismay Line, p. 146.
41 Ibid.
42 Ibid., p. 152.
43 To Sir Clinton Dawkins, quoted in Oldham, The Ismay Line, p. 158.
44 The Times, 3 December 1903.
45 Oldham, The Ismay Line, p. 145.
46 Michael Moss and John R. Hume, Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland & Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986 (Blackstaff, 1986), p. 92.
47 Oldham, The Ismay Line, p. 140.
48 Moss and Hume, Shipbuilders to the World, p. 108.
49 Oldham, The Ismay Line, p. 161.
50 Filson Young, Titanic (Grant Richards, 1912), p. 12.
51 R. A. Fletcher, Travelling Palaces, p. 225.
52 Oldham, The Ismay Line, p. 171.
53 On the night of the disaster, James Ismay is said to have come out of his coma and said, ‘Bruce is in trouble, Bruce is in trouble.’
54 LMQ/1/3.
55 The Titanic Commutator, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1987, p. 41.
56 Oldham, The Ismay Line, p. 18.
Chapter 4: These Bumble-like Proceedings
1 Robert Hughes, The Real New York (Hutchinson, 1905), p. 50.
2 James Remington McCarthy, Peacock Alley: The Romance of the Waldorf Astoria (Harper, 1931), p. 163.
3 This is also pointed out by Filson Young, Titanic, p. 81.
4 Strouse, Morgan: American Financier, p. 643.
5 Lightoller, ‘Titanic’, p. 301.
6 Daily Telegraph, 22 April 1912.
7 Edward Hungerford, The Story of the WaldorfAstoria (The Knickerbocker Press, 1925), p. 131.
8 Stephen Biel, Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (W. W. Norton, 1996), p. 30.
9 Ben Proctor, William Randolph Hearst, the Later Years (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 5.
10 Quoted in Michael Davie, The Titanic: The Full Story of a Tragedy (Bodley Head, 1986), p. 156.
11 Ibid.
12 Following the wreck of the Titanic, the publishers of Futility reissued the book as The Wreck of the Titan.
13 Lightoller, ’Titanic’, p. 303.
14 Patrick Stenson, Lights: The Odyssey of CHLightoller (London, 1984), p. 206.
15 Lightoller, ’Titanic’, p. 287.
16 LMQ/7/1/20.
17 Lightoller, ’Titanic’, p. 285.
18 Louise Patten, Good as Gold (Quercus, 20i0), p. 24i.
19 Lightoller, ’Titanic’, p. 277.
20 Ibid., p. 282.
21 Ibid., p. 305.
22 Ibid., p. 288.
23 George Behe, On Board the RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage (Lulu.com, 2011), p. 335.
24 H. M. Marriot, The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy (William Heinemann, 1935), p. 340.
25 Sigmund Freud, Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria in The Penguin Freud Reader, ed. Adam Phillips (Penguin, 2006), p. 443.
