The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation (Abridged)

On April 10, 1912, The RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. But on the night of April 14, the British passenger liner collided with an iceberg, which resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Merely one day after the Titanic survivors arrived in New York City, a United States Senate committee began an investigation into the wreck of the great "unsinkable" ship. The official transcripts of the investigation include: the testimony of J. Bruce Ismay...