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How to Survive the Titanic

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by Frances Wilson


  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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