"TITANIC" DISASTER, HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE UNITED STATES SENATE, SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS SECOND SESSION

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1912. First Edition. Octavo, iv, 1163 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's tan cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. General shelf wear. Ex-library, with library stamp to title page. Gutter webbing visible between first and second free endpaper. Light age toning throughout. With three fold-out maps. Shelved in Case 1.

1415085

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Price: $5,000

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US Senate: "The Titanic hearings were conducted by a special subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee and chaired by Senator William A. Smith (R-MI). The hearings began on April 19, 1912, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The next week the hearings were moved to the new caucus room of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. They were the first hearings to be held in that room. 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. The hearings concluded on May 28, 1912, when Senator Smith visited the Titanic’s sister ship, Olympic, at port in New York, to interview some of its crew. When the Titanic sank, the Olympic was about 500 miles away...There is an index to the testimony broken out by topic–such as “collision, effect of” and “ship light in distance.”"