How to Survive the Titanic

unconscious, the 165–6

Under Western Eyes (Conrad) 181

US inquiry

accounts of Ismay’s departure 5–10

Bride’s testimony 134–6

British press coverage 230

Conrad on 126, 185–6, 187–8

findings 164–6

first day 112–23

Franklin’s testimony 141 Hichens’ testimony 154–6

and the ice warning 115–16, 130,

147–8

Ismay released 162

Ismay’s account of departure from Titanic 114, 117–18

Ismay’s account of evacuation 116–18

Ismay’s account of time on Carpathia 30–I Ismay’s account of voyage 113–14

Ismay’s attempt to influence 143–4

Ismay’s attendance 157–9

Ismay’s opening statement 113

Ismay’s request to be released from 157–8

Ismay’s testimony 10, 14, 30–1, 39,

112–23, 160–2

lack of sense 230–1

launched 50

Lightoller’s opinion of 130–1

Lightoller’s testimony 127–31, 145–53

Lightoller’s use of language 156–7

location 109–12

Lowe’s testimony 144–5

newspaper accounts of first day 120–1, 122

questions about Ismay’s role on Titanic 114, 115

reconvened in Washington 140–1

report 235

Roston’s testimony 123–4

Ryerson’s testimony 163

Saturday 20

April hearing 133–6

Smith’s viewpoint of 126

transfer to Washington 136, 138–9

and the use of wireless 133–6

and the Yamsi messages 141, 145–7, 161

US merchant marine 95

US Navy 54

Uttoxeter Advertiser 79

Vachell, Horace 78

Verne, Jules 65, 66

Victory (Conrad) 202, 209

Virginian 47, 246

Voyage Out, The (Woolf) 286

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel 109–12, 133, 163

Wall Street Journal 97

Walton, Isaac 261–2

Washington 136, 138–9, 140–1, 143

Washington Post 49

Washington Times 45

Watt, Bertha 46

Waugh, Evelyn 40

Weikman, August 6, 163, 272

Wells, H. G. 20, 286

Whillan’s Yard, Maryport 61

White Star Line

arrangements for survivors 58

compensation settlements 266

guilty of negligence 263

insurance policy 153

Ismay sells 93–100

Ismay’s retirement from 218–19, 262

liners 66–7

New Zealand trade 83

ownership 239

passenger list, 1906 x

Sanderson offered chairmanship 107

Smith’s career with 42

Thomas Ismay buys 63

Widener, Eleanor 200, 203

Widener, George 52, 53, 111, 161, 200

Wilde, Chief Officer 6, 149, 156, 272

Wilde, Oscar 166, 277

Willard’s Hotel, Washington 138, 143

Williams, Augustine Podmore 175–6, 206, 276

Williams, J. E. Hodder 42

Wilson, F. B. 72–3

Wilson, Henry Threlfell 63

wireless messaging 245–9

witnesses, value of testimony 155

Wolff, Gustav 64

Women’s Relief Committee 58

Woolf, Virginia 191, 205, 229, 285, 286

Woolner, Hugh 8

Wordsworth, William 270

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

Yeats, W. B. 285

yellow press, the 136–8

Young, Filson 16, 20, 102, 234, 243, 245, 246

Young, Marie 32, 46

Youth (Conrad) 181