How to Survive the Titanic

I48–9, 253–4, 272–3

letters awaiting return 207–8

letters of consolation 214–15

life in New York 86–7

Lightoller’s account of actions 129

Lightoller’s defence of 145–53, 272

loss of honour 40

love of Titanic 39–40

Lowe’s testimony on 144–5

as manager of the White Star Line agency, New York 86–7

marriage 87–9

married life 89–92

mental condition 145–6

Mersey exonerates 257

messages to Franklin 46–7, 5I–4,

141, 161, 246, 246–7

moral duty 252–4, 257

morbid introspection 2I4

newspapers blame 120–I nightmares 208–9

obituaries 27I–2

only published self-defence 139–40

orders Slow Ahead after collision 151–3

plans return voyage 51–4

portrayal in A Night to Remember (film) 280

portrayals of 23

position 22–4

press release, 23

April 139–40

press statement 131–3

Rayner on 50

refused permission to return home 133, 136, 142

relationship with Edith Russell 227–8

relationship with father 79–8I, 151

relationship with Lightoller 149–50, 236

relationship with Marian Thayer 198–9, 204–5, 206, 216–I8, 2I9–20, 223

relationship with Marian Thayer aboard Titanic 202–3, 2I9–20

released from US inquiry 162

request to be released from US inquiry 157–8

rescued 29

resignation as president of 1MM 262

retirement plans 107–8, 218–I9

return to England 163, 203–4

return to New York 162

reunited with Florence 206–7

role on Titanic 24, 114, II5, 160–1, 240–I, 250–I, 256, 263–4

in Scotland 211–13

scrapbooks 25

Sealby on 142

self-loathing 225

sells White Star Line 93–100

sense of inferiority 79–80, 81

siblings 70, 80–1

and Smith 115

social standing 23, 76, 125, 260, 262

statement to US inquiry 113

as super captain 251, 265–6

testimony to US inquiry 10, 14, 39, 112–23, 160–2

and Titanic’s lifeboat capacity 119

and Titanic’s speed 249–51

tomb 268

Tom’s letter 212, 212–13

tragedy of 274–5

as tragic hero 281–2

turns down partnership in Ismay, Imrie and Co. 87

unpopularity with the press 86

voyage on the Olympic 102–4

voyage to New Zealand 85–6

word of survival spreads 49

The World’s Exile 260

Yamsi codename 48, 51

Yamsi messages 48, 51–4, 141, 145–7, 161, 234–5, 246

the yellow press and 136–8

Young on 234

Ismay, James 80, 81, 88, 93, 94, 107

Ismay, John Sealby 61

Ismay, Joseph 61

Ismay, Margaret 89, 106, 218, 273

Ismay, Margaret (Nee Bruce) 63, 70, 83, 84, 89, 91, 93, 94, 98, 104, 232

Ismay, Mary 70

Ismay, Thomas Henry achievement 92–3

art collection 84

background 61–4

character 67, 68–9

death 92

funeral 93

JBI turns down partnership offer 87

and JBI’s education 73, 76–7

and JBI’s marriage 88

Millais portrait 84

and the Oceanic 66

Relationship with JBI 79–81

relationship with JBI 151

retirement 89

turns down baronetcy 69–70

will 94

Ismay, Tom 80, 92, 212, 212–13

Ismay Line, The (Oldham) 77, 79–81, 272

James, Henry 96, 166, 182, 285–6

Jameson, Dr Leander Starr 223