Lord Mersey
Books
- Twenty Lifeboats Titanic, the Inquiries, and the Remaking of Maritime Law · Liszt Think
On the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with lifeboats lowered half full.
- A Desk of Regulations (London, 1894–1912)…. The US inquiry began on 19 April under the chairmanship of Senator William Alden Smith, and the British inquiry commenced in London under Lord Mersey on 2 May. Both would hear testimony about the 1894 Act, about the tonnage table, about the proposals that had gone nowhere. Both would see…
- The Lookout’s Cry…, under Senator William Alden Smith, would focus on the speed. Smith would ask why the ship had not slowed down. The British inquiry, under Lord Mersey, would focus on the lookouts. Mersey would ask why they had not seen the berg sooner. Both inquiries would hear about the calm sea. Both wo…
- CQD MGY…f Trade would examine its regulations. The United States Senate, under William Alden Smith, would summon operators and captains to testify. Lord Mersey’s Wreck Commissioner’s inquiry in London would hear the same witnesses and reach its own conclusions. But already, in the early hours of Ap…
- Eighteen Minutes The Sinking of the Lusitania and the Eighteen Minutes That Changed the World · Liszt Think
On May 7, 1915, a single torpedo from U-20 struck the Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale.
- The Doors That Would Not Close…e of the Cunard Company since 1883. He had occupied the position of Commander since 1903 and held an Extra Master’s Certificate since 1907. Lord Mersey, who presided over the wreck inquiry two months later, would note that Turner gave his evidence truthfully and well. He was not a man given…
- The Woman in the Water…This is also what would later be set against all that happened on deck: while survivors clung to wreckage and described their ordeal before Lord Mersey’s inquiry; while newspapers printed illustrations of hulls listing into cold water; while diplomats drafted notes and counter-notes about b…
- The Sheds at Queenstown…over every subsequent inquiry like a weight that could not be lifted. The Mersey inquiry, presided over by Wreck Commissioner John Bigham, Lord Mersey, would convene in June 1915 in London. Testimony would come from survivors, from Cunard officers, from naval witnesses, and from government…