Four Thousand Lives Lost: The Inquiries of Lord Mersey Into the Sinking of the Titanic, the Empress of Ireland, the Falaba and the Lusitania

Over a period of four years, four ships were lost under different circumstances and 4,000 lives with them - but one thing links them all: it was John Charles Bigham, Lord Mersey, who was appointed to head the inquiries into each disaster. Mersey is often referred to in contemptuous terms in the many Titanic and Lusitania forums, as a 'company man', or a government stooge. But is this the whole truth? In themselves these stories are as dramatic as they come; everyone knows about the Titanic ...