How to Survive the Titanic

Smith, Captain E. J.

accidents 45, 161

appearance 42

career 42–3, 44

command fo the Olympic 105–6

death of 44

dinner party 3

ice warnings 3–4, 43, 241–4

informs Ismay of damage 4

and Ismay 115

Ismay on 161

Ismay’s influence on 165, 263–4

and Lightoller 38

ordered to keep ship moving after collision 151

retirement 45

on shipbuilding 43–4

status 42

Smith, Joseph 42

Smith, Mrs Lucien P 30, 124–5

Smith, Sydney 222

Smith, William Alden 50, 54, 58

aims 164

background 125–6

begins inquiry proceedings 112

and Bryce 137–8

cross-examination of Franklin 141

cross-examination of Hichens 154–6

cross-examination of Ismay 112–23, 160–2

cross-examination of Lightoller 127–31, 145–53

cross-examination of Rostron 123–4

English press view of 126

findings 164–6, 235

Graphic cartoon of 127 Ismay’s attempt to influence 143– 4

Ismay’s request to be released 157–8

lack of sense 231

qualifications as committee chairman 138

refuses permission for Ismay to return home 133, 136, 142

return to New York 163

use of language 164–5

view of inquiry 126

‘Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic (Conrad) 185–7

Southampton 106, 113

Speke Hall 82

Sphere, The 254–5

spiritualism 205

Sporting Pie (Wilson) 72–3

Standard 126

Stanley, Amy 9, 12

Stead, Alfred 126

Stead, W. T. 126, 205

steamships, development of 64–6,

181, 189, 190 Steele, Charles 97

steering communication systems 155

Stenson, Patrick 149

Stevenson, Robert Louis 166, 194–5

Stoker, Bram 66

Straits Times 175

Strand 285

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

(Stevenson) 166

Straus, Ida 159

Stuart, Mary Anna Maxwell 214

Stuart White, Mrs 159

super captains 251 survivors aboard Carpathia 45–6, 54–7

adrift 27, 36

arrival in New York 57–60

need to tell tales 25

numbers 11 rescue 28–32

roll call 29–30

by social class 164

statement 57

Syren, The 99–100

Taft, William 54, 138, 200–2

Tales of Unrest (Conrad) 277

Telegraph, the 237–8, 239, 256

Teutonic 89

Thayer, Jack 9, 12, 14, 16–17, 18, 39, 54, 152, 199, 203, 219–20, 265

Thayer, John B. 9, iii, 199–200

Thayer, Marian

aboard Carpathia 54, 55–6

aboard Titanic 3, 32, 44, 163, 200, 242

appeal 201

background 199–200

community of grief 210–11

correspondence with 1smay 40, 203– 6, 209–10, 211–12, 214, 215–19, 224–8

death 279

defence of Ismay 22

insurance claim 216

later years 280

letter to President Taft 200–2

relationship with Ismay 198–9, 204– 5, 206, 216–18, 219–20, 223

relationship with Ismay aboard Titanic 202–3, 219–20

and spiritualism 205

The Times (London) 7, 33, 40, 139–40, 230

Times Democrat 260

Titanic

accounts of evacuation 5–10

all passengers believed saved 47–8