buys house in Ireland 213
on Captain Smith 161
character 37–8, 80–1, 151, 225
charitable donations 262–3
children 89, 91
on Collapsible C capacity 12, 116–17
comparison with Rostron 123
condition aboard Carpathia 47
condition when rescued 29
confidence in Titanic 152–3, 157
Conrad and 184, 274–7
correspondence with Marian Thayer 40, 203–6, 209–10, 211–12, 214, 215–19, 224–8
Costelloe Lodge 260–1
Costelloe Lodge memorial 268,
283
cycling trips 91
death 22, 268
death of Henry 89
decision on number of lifeboats 11, 251–2, 252
defenders 21–2
denies Titanic had been going full speed 114
at Dinard 79
disconnection 31–2
does not watch Titanic sink 14
draws “White Star flag 136
early life 70–1
education 71–9
at Elstree preparatory school 71–3
family coat of arms 69
final meal on Titanic 3
fishing and 261–2
Franklin visits 213–14
guilt 39
at Harrow 73–8
Hearst campaign against 137–8
helps load lifeboats 4–5, 117–18
and Hichens 155–6
and the ice warnings 3–4, 55–6, 115–16, 140, 241–4, 248–9, 265
idea for Titanic 100–2
influence on Smith 165, 263–4
informed of damage 4
initial press questions 59–60
internal struggle 223–4
John Bull campaign against 19–20
joins 1smay, Imrie & Company 79–80
jump into Collapsible C 6–8, 9
later years 266–8
leaves Titanic 5–8, 9, 117–18,
I48–9, 253–4, 272–3
letters awaiting return 207–8
letters of consolation 214–15
life in New York 86–7
Lightoller’s account of actions 129
Lightoller’s defence of 145–53, 272
loss of honour 40
love of Titanic 39–40
Lowe’s testimony on 144–5
as manager of the White Star Line agency, New York 86–7
marriage 87–9
married life 89–92
mental condition 145–6
Mersey exonerates 257
messages to Franklin 46–7, 5I–4,
141, 161, 246, 246–7
moral duty 252–4, 257
morbid introspection 2I4
newspapers blame 120–I nightmares 208–9
obituaries 27I–2
only published self-defence 139–40
orders Slow Ahead after collision 151–3
plans return voyage 51–4
portrayal in A Night to Remember (film) 280
portrayals of 23
position 22–4
press release, 23
April 139–40
press statement 131–3
Rayner on 50
refused permission to return home 133, 136, 142
relationship with Edith Russell 227–8
relationship with father 79–8I, 151
relationship with Lightoller 149–50, 236
relationship with Marian Thayer 198–9, 204–5, 206, 216–I8, 2I9–20, 223
relationship with Marian Thayer aboard Titanic 202–3, 2I9–20
released from US inquiry 162
request to be released from US inquiry 157–8
rescued 29
resignation as president of 1MM 262
retirement plans 107–8, 218–I9
return to England 163, 203–4
return to New York 162
reunited with Florence 206–7
role on Titanic 24, 114, II5, 160–1, 240–I, 250–I, 256, 263–4
in Scotland 211–13
scrapbooks 25
Sealby on 142
self-loathing 225
sells White Star Line 93–100
sense of inferiority 79–80, 81
siblings 70, 80–1
and Smith 115
social standing 23, 76, 125, 260, 262
statement to US inquiry 113
as super captain 251, 265–6
testimony to US inquiry 10, 14, 39, 112–23, 160–2
and Titanic’s lifeboat capacity 119
and Titanic’s speed 249–51
tomb 268
Tom’s letter 212, 212–13
tragedy of 274–5
as tragic hero 281–2
turns down partnership in Ismay, Imrie and Co. 87
unpopularity with the press 86
voyage on the Olympic 102–4
voyage to New Zealand 85–6
word of survival spreads 49
The World’s Exile 260
Yamsi codename 48, 51
Yamsi messages 48, 51–4, 141, 145–7, 161, 234–5, 246
the yellow press and 136–8
Young on 234
Ismay, James 80, 81, 88, 93, 94, 107
Ismay, John Sealby 61
Ismay, Joseph 61
Ismay, Margaret 89, 106, 218, 273
Ismay, Margaret (Nee Bruce) 63, 70, 83, 84, 89, 91, 93, 94, 98, 104, 232
Ismay, Mary 70
Ismay, Thomas Henry achievement 92–3
art collection 84
background 61–4
character 67, 68–9
death 92
funeral 93
JBI turns down partnership offer 87
and JBI’s education 73, 76–7
and JBI’s marriage 88
Millais portrait 84
and the Oceanic 66
Relationship with JBI 79–81
relationship with JBI 151
retirement 89
turns down baronetcy 69–70
will 94
Ismay, Tom 80, 92, 212, 212–13
Ismay Line, The (Oldham) 77, 79–81, 272
James, Henry 96, 166, 182, 285–6
Jameson, Dr Leander Starr 223
Jameson Raid, the 232–3
Jeddah, SS 175, 276
Jekyll, Gertrude 267
Jersey Journal 8
Jessop, Violet 14
Jewell, Archie 230
John Bull 19–20
Jones, Ernest 156
Jones, Mary 215
Joseph, Anna 12
Joseph, Catherine 12
Joseph, Michael 12
Journal of Commerce 271
‘Karain: A Memory’ (Conrad) 14, 277–9
Kerr, Mark 2I4–I5
Kiamie, Adele Najib 12
Kipling, Rudyard 223–4
Korzeniowski, Apollo 191–2
Kylsant, Lord 266
Lapland 52, 133, 154–6
Lardner, Dionysius 64
Lawrence, D. H. 286
Lawton, Frank 280
Lee Bing 13
Leyland, Frederick 82
Leyland Line 94
Lightoller, Second Officer Charles account of Astor’s final moments 111 account of evacuation of Titanic 130
account of Ismay’s actions 129
account of Ismay’s departure 6
account of loss of Titanic 38–9, 127–31, 235–6, 281
appearance 128
appointment to Titanic 156
arrival in Washington 138–9
and Beesley’s letter to The Times 33
on British Board of Trade inquiry 233
British Board of Trade inquiry testimony 235–7
career 38
defence of Ismay 145–53, 272
duty to White Star Line 153,
156–7, 222–3
escape from Titanic 38–9, 127–8,
131 and Hichens
155–6
and the ice warning 130, 147–8
knowledge of Titanic’s layout 6
memoirs 280–1 opinion of US inquiry 130–1 portrayal in A Night to Remember (film) 280
relationship with Ismay 149–50, 236
religious beliefs 156
rescue of Bride 136
on sinking of Titanic 15
Smith’s orders to 44
testimony to US inquiry 127–31, 145–53
use of language 156–7
women and children only policy 159
and the Yamsi messages 145–7
Lightoller, Sylvia 281
liners
Conrad on 184–5
design 67–8
development of 64–8
dining rooms 67–8
increasing size of 100–1
luxury 67–8, 85, 186
Lines, Elizabeth 263
Ling Hee 13
Literary Digest, The 185
Liverpool 70–1, 81–2, 194, 207, 266
Liverpool and London Steamship Protection and Indemnity Association 266
Lloyd’s Weekly News 20–1, 234
London 229–30
London and Globe Insurance Company 266
London and North-Western Railway 266
London Budget, The 185
London Evening News 271
London Opinion 64
Long, Judge Charles L. 9
Lord, Walter 7, 17, 25, 46, 260, 280, 281
Lord Hartington’s Commission 69, 88
Lord Jim (Conrad) 39, 196, 222, 271–2, 287
appeal of 180
Beesley uses as model 37
Captain Marlow 173–4, 274–6
Captain Marlow’s previous appearances 181–2
Captain Marlow’s role 178, 180–1, 182–3, 270
claims to realism 179
close 270
comparison with Hamlet 179
division into two parts 269–70
Jim aboard the Patna 168–9
Jim’s death 269
Jim’s escape from the Patna 169–73, 174
model for Jim 175–6
narration 178
opening 178
origins 175, 276
Patna Inquiry 173, 178
plot 177
preface 175–6
publication 177
reviews 177, 178, 178–80, 269–70
the stranger within 174
writing of 176–7
Loss of the SS Titanic: Its Story and Its
Lessons, The (Beesley) 32–7
Lowe, Fifth Officer Harold 18, 144–5
Lunn, Arnold 75
Lusitania 96, 100, 101
Lutyens, Sir Edwin 267
lynchings 125
McCumber, Senator 120–1
McGhee, Dr 39, 160, 210–11
Mackay-Bennett 131, 160
MacNeice, Louis 279
MacPherson, William Molson 215
Macquitty, William 227–8
Magill, Georgette 6
Mahan, Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer 49
Mahon, Derek 259
Majestic 285
Marconi, Guglielmo 133, 245–7
Marconi International Marine Communication Company 245
Marlburian, the 75–6
Marshall, Logan 21 Martin, Annie 29
Maryport 61 Matania, Fortunio 254–5
Matarasso, Pauline 91, 262, 267–8, 273
Mauretania 96, 100, 101
Mersey, Lord 231
background 232–3
exonerates 1smay 257
focus 235
and Ismay’s testimony 239, 240, 242, 251, 252, 253
and Lightoller’s testimony 235, 236
Mesaba 148
Milholland, Inez 133–4
Millais, John Everett 84
Millet, Francis 157, 204, 286
Mirror of the Sea, The
(Conrad) 39–40, 193, 195–6
Mont Blanc 193
moral cowardice 273–4
More, Kenneth 280
Morgan, J. Pierpont background 94–5
cancels sailing on Titanic 107
and Hearst 137
ignores Ismay 215
and Ismay 223
and Ismay’s retirement at the launch of Titanic 102
and the Olympic 93
purchase of White Star Line 93–8, 101
and the US inquiry 121, 126
and the Waldorf-Astoria III Morris, William 78
Moubarek, Gerios 12
Moubarek, Halim 12
Moubarek, Omine 12
Mousselmani, Fatima 12
Murdoch, First Officer 135, 148, 154, 156
Najder, Zdzislaw 192, 193
Najib, Adele 12
Nakid, Sahid 8, 12
Nakid, Waika 8, 12
Nash’s Magazine 185
National Magazine 32
National Mercantile Marine Fund 262–3
National Zeitung 96
New York 45, 107
New York 54, 86–9, 99, 162
Carpathia’s arrival in 57–60
New York American 19, 31, 137
New York Evening Post 49
New York Globe 98, 99 New York Herald 185, 276
New York Mail 97
New York Sun 47–8
New York Times 10, 19, 19, 22, 33, 48, 49, 59, 88, 117, 120, 134, 141–2, 153, 232, 271, 272, 286
New York Times Book Review 176, 179–80
New York Tribune 120, 271–2
New Zealand 83, 85–6
Newlands, Senator 54, 58, 112, 121
Newsome, Helen 24
Nicola-Yarred, Elias 13
Nicola-Yarred, Jamilia 13
Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, The (Conrad) 182
Nightingale, Florence 270
Nordlington 87
North Western Railway Hotel, Liverpool 266
Northern Echo 246
Northern Whig 94 ‘Ocean Travel’ (Conrad) 184–5
Oceanic (1) 66–7
Oceanic (2) 85, 92–3
Oceanic Steam Navigation Company 64
Ogden Standard 260 Öhman, Velin 13
Oldham, Wilton 77, 79–81, 86–7, 91–2, 151, 272
O’Loughlin, Dr William 3, 32, 244
Olympic 30, 41, 48, 48, 246
accommodation 103
collision with HMS Hawke 45, 105, 105–6, 153, 161
dismantled 268
Franklin on 213–14
the Great War 262
idea for conceived 100
maiden voyage 102–4
movements of ix
mutiny 144
On the Natural History of Destruction (Sebald) 155
‘One Hundred Years Ago’ ball, Albert Hall 257–8
Outcast of the Islands, An (Conrad) 196
Pacific Loan and Investment Company 266
Pall Mall Gazette 72
Parisian 246
Patten, Louise 150–1, 153
Pearcey, Albert 12
Peuchen, Major 143, 156
Phillips, Jack 29, 135, 247
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde) 166
Pilkington, John 63
Pirrie, Lord William 67, 100–2, 106–7, 215, 223
Pitman, Third Officer 142
Poland 191–2
press, the
blames Ismay 120–1
British response 233–4
criticism of women’s behaviour 134
Ismay’s statement to 131–2
survivor interviews 132–3
yellow 136–8
Public Opinion 178
public schools 74–8
Queen Mary 268
Queenstown 113, 249–50
Quinn, John 184, 187, 276
Rayner, Senator 50
Red Star Line 94
Republic 42, 66, 142, 245–6
Robertson, Morgan 140
Robins, Louise 162
Roosevelt, Theodore 137, 201
Rost
ron, Arthur 28, 30, 45–6, 47, 53, 57, 123–5, 210–11, 221
Roth, Sarah 13
Rowe, Quartermaster George 7, 12, 160
Royal Commission on Labour 69
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 266
Rugby 75
Russell, Bertrand 192
Russell, Edith 15, 17, 22, 54, 227–8
Ryerson, Emily 3, 55–6, 139, 159, 160, 163, 200, 202–3, 242, 264
Saint, Andrew 83–4
St George Steam Packet Company 64, 65
St Louis Post-Dispatch 21
St Paul’s Cathedral, London, memorial service 112
Salkjelsvik, Anna 13
Sanderson, Agnes 72
Sanderson, Basil 267, 273–4
Sanderson, Evelyn (nee 1smay) 267
Sanderson, Harold
background 87
at British Board of Trade
inquiry 238, 255
and Ismay 94, 97–8, 213, 215, 223
joins White Star Line 90–1
and presidency of IMM 107, 214, 219
Sanderson, Katherine 71–2, 196
Sanderson, Lancelot 71–2, 73
Sanderson, Maud, (nee Blood) 87, 91 Sanderson, Monica 72
Sanderson, Richard 87
Sanderson, Ted 72, 74, 167–8, 194–6, 199
Sandheys 90–1 Sarnoff, David 48
Saturday Review 158
Saved from the Titanic (film) 24–5
Scanlan, Thomas 231, 242–3, 251–2, 263
Scarrott, Joseph 230
Schieffelin, George 87–8, 89, 92
Schwabe, Gustavus C. 63, 82
Scotland 211–13
Scott, Robert Falcon 226
Scottish Drill Hall, London 229, 231 Sea Insurance Company 266
Sealby, Inman 141–2
searchlights 156–7
Sebald, W. G. 155
‘The Secret Sharer’ (Conrad) 220–2
Senate Office Building, Washington 140, 142
Senior, Harry 5
Seymour, Lady Margaret 88, 94
Shackleton, Sir Ernest 255
Sharon Herald 8
Shaw, Richard Norman 83–5, 92, 104
Shaw Savill 83
Sherry, Norman 176
Shutes, Elizabeth 14, 15
Singapore Legislative Assembly 175
Sinking of the SS Titanic, The (Thayer) 9
Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters (Marshall) 21
Sirius 64–5
Sketch, The 179
Skrine, J. H. 74–6
Smith, Dodie 37
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
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