Aftermath of the RMS Titanic Disaster

A Great Tragedy's Warning and Inspiration - 1912

In its sacrifice of safety to speed and show, the sea's greatest catastrophe lays bare a weak spot in modern life; in the moral heroism called forth, the disaster reveals civilization's most exquisite flower.

American Inquiry and Investigation into the Loss of the RMS Titanic

A total of 82 witnesses testified about ice warnings that were ignored, the inadequate number of lifeboats, the ship’s speed, the failure of nearby ships to respond to the Titanic’s distress calls, and the treatment of passengers of different classes.

At the Toll of Death the World Mourns

The appalling disaster of the loss of the Titanic is one that appeals to the sympathies of every man, woman, and child throughout the world. In its stupendousness, it eclipses any maritime disaster on record, and we feel we would not be doing our duty if we did not make some mention of this terrible calamity. A sacrifice to speed!

Craving News of RMS Titanic Passengers at White Star Offices

When the Line's Flags Were at Half-Mast after the Wreck of the “Titanic" with Great Loss of Life: Anxious Inquirers at the White Star Company's West-End Office in Cockspur Street.

Expert Opinions on What Really Happened - 1912

While it is well to adopt many of the precautions and devices suggested since the iceberg sent the Titanic to the bottom, yet we are reminded by no less an authority on ice than Robert E. Peary that, after all, for the modern transatlantic liner, "there is no certain protection against icebergs except to give the region where they may occur the widest berth."

Fruits of the Titanic Disaster - 1913

While some editors detect a tendency on the part of the public to forget those lessons and to relax the pressure of its demand for reforms, all agree that ocean travel is safer today because of that terrible sacrifice of 1,503 men, women, and children in the icy waters of the North Atlantic in the early morning of April 14, 1912.

Ice in the Sea Lane Sailed by the Titanic - 1912

These icebergs are usually comparatively small so far as area is concerned, but they are of great height, and extend to an enormous depth below the water so that they have tremendous momentum. A ship miqht just as well strike a rock.

Lessons from the Titanic Disaster

The "Titanic" catastrophe teaches no new lesson as regards the fallibility of man. It simply furnished another example of the well-established principle that if in the conduct of any enterprise, an error of human judgment or faulty working of the human senses involves disaster, sooner or later the disaster comes.

Life-Saving Craft Aboard Ocean Liners - 1912

Pictorial from The Illustrated London News demonstrates the role of lifeboats on the Titanic and other ships of that era, along with the effects of shortchanging passengers with too few lifeboats.

Responsibility for the "Titanic" Disaster - 1912

As the passengers, officers, and members of the crew tell their successive stories, and answer the searching questions of the investigators, the horror of the Titanic's sinking, it is remarked, only increases, "while the needless loss of life becomes more and more obvious."

Scientific Aftermath of the Titanic Disaster - 1912

Questions in applied science, especially in engineering, suggested by phases of the Titanic disaster, continue to agitate the scientific press, both here and abroad. Foremost among these, perhaps, are questions connected with the vessel's structure, and with the arrangement and efficiency of the bulkheads that were supposed to render her "unsinkable."

Service for the Victims of the Titanic - 1912

In the Hours of Strongest Feeling: The "Titanic" Service. Gathered to Show Sympathy with the Sorrow of Two Peoples: The Crowd outside St. Paul's at the Conclusion of the Memorial Service on April 19, 1912.

The Titanic - A Poem by Brand Whitlock - 1912

Brand Whitlock (March 4, 1869 – May 24, 1934) was an American journalist, attorney, politician, Georgist, four-time mayor of Toledo, Ohio, and author of numerous articles and books, wrote this poem following the RMS Titanic Disaster on 15 April 1912.

The Titanic Horror - April 1912

The Titanic horror fills everyone with an indescribable sadness. Hardly any great calamity in recent years has been so startling or has exemplified so fully that “in the midst of Life, we are in Death.”

The RMS Titanic Inquiry in London - 1912

The British Inquiry into the Loss of the "Titanic" Was Opened on May 9, in the London Scottish Drill Hall, at Buckingham Gate. Lord Mersey, the Wreck Commissioner, Appointed for the Purpose, Took the Chair at Eleven O’Clock

The "Titanic" Report from U.S. Senate Hearings - 1912

Both the Senator's speech and the committee's report, which have evoked some sneers from London, find hearty favor in the eyes of the American press. Though they admit that it contains "unnecessary rhetoric," the Springfield Republican and New York Evening Post consider it a fair, temperate, and useful summing up of the results of the investigation.

The Titanic Tragedy - 1912

There are tears for the dead, pity for the bereaved, and pride in the heroic victims of the Titanic disaster, but there is some pretty stern comment, too, on the fact that in this year 1912, the greatest of all ships, the "unsinkable Titanic, should, upon her maiden voyage, carry down to Death 1,635 men and women, while but 705 were rescued from a calm sea on a starlit night.

Titanic - A Sacrifice to Speed! - 1912

The appalling disaster of the loss of the Titanic is one that appeals to the sympathies of every man, woman, and child throughout the world. In its stupendousness, it eclipses any maritime disaster on record, and we feel we would not be doing our duty if we did not make some mention of this terrible calamity. A sacrifice to speed!

Titanic Fund Distribution - 1912

The net amount of the fund for the relief of Titanic sufferers has now reached approximately the sum of $2,133,900, and the following particulars in regard to its distribution have been made public.

Titanic Story Unfolding at a Newspaper - 1912

The scene in a metropolitan newspaper office following the receipt of the first news of the "Titanic" disaster, as graphically portrayed by an editor of a New York morning paper, illustrates the conditions under which important news, received late, is hurried into print.

The Tragedy of the Titanic And Its Lesson - 1912

The White Star liner Titanic, the largest vessel afloat, fitted with all the comfort and luxury that money and modern invention could devise, and equipped with devices which her builders boasted made her "absolutely unsinkable."

Witnesses Called To Give Evidence on Titanic Disaster

Giving evidence before the British Commission inquiring into the loss of the “Titanic.” George Symons, who was in charge of the boat in which Sir. Cosmo and Lady Duff-Gordon, amongst others, were passengers, said that he thought it would not be safe to go back to attempt to pick anyone out of the water and that no question was raised in the boat about going back to the rescue.