Titanic distress calls and survivor accounts at inquiry
Testimony described the sequence after the Titanic sent distress messages. Operator Cottam recounted confirming and relaying messages to the captain and reporting to the Carpathia, with many ships attempting contact. Mrs Isidor Straus refused to leave her husband, while J Bruce Ismay helped load a lifeboat on the starboard side. The committee adjourned to continue the hearing.
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Alfred Crawford
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Titanic Inquiry Transcript Surfaces in Senate Hearing
Testimony from the Titanic inquiry includes questions about watertight compartments and survival, with officers Pittman Boxhall and Love named. Wireless operator Thomas Cottam testifies on Marconi duties and catching distress signals as the session resumes after a break.
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Countess Leads Crew of Women Rowing
April 19 report from New York notes Miss Alice Farnam Leader, a physician, escaped the Titanic with the Countess Rothes aboard. The countess is described as an expert oarswoman who took command when seamen failed to row well, with several women sharing rowing duties while weaker crewmen sat at one end.
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Countess Rothes
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Ismay Refuses to Recall Titanic Sights at Senate Hearing
J Bruce Ismay told the Senate investigating committee he could not recall many Titanic disaster events. He said he did not see the captain, panic, lifeboat details, or passengers on deck as the ship sank, and he did not want to see the end.
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Ismay
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Senator Smith
J. Bruce Ismay
Senate Investigating Committee
Titanic Survivor Recounts Sinking and Lifeboat Escape
Stockholm lieutenant H Bjornston Steffanson, a Titanic first cabin passenger, recalls the night of the disaster. He describes seeing an iceberg, donning life belts, boarding a collapsible lifeboat with Hugh Woolner, and witnessing the ship’s final plunge amid cries and gunfire from a pursuing officer.
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New York
Woolner
Wives Seek Right to Die With Husbands in Titanic Rescue
Albany editor Gilbert M. Tucker recalls the Titanic disaster scenes where wives begged to stay with their husbands as boats filled. He praises the crew for heroic effort to save women and children and to restrain men from trampling them.
Be British Is Order of Captain Smith Be British Be British
Titanic survivor JOHN JOHNSON recounts Captain Smith’s rallying cry Be British guiding officers and crew as the ship struck the iceberg. He says men remained at their posts saving women and children, dying beside the vessel as Ismay left the deck before lifeboats were filled.
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Captain Smith
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Man Driven to Hysteria by Titanic Wreck Report
April 19 in Hempstead New York Dayi Burns an employee at Castle Gould Port Washington went violent insane after reading and discussing the Titanic disaster He claimed the wreck was the Lord s punishment for sins and had to be restrained by arrest notes indicating shock from the event.
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