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Description: | This article give a first hand account from Titanic survivor James McGann, who was a fireman on board Titanic. He tells of the last moments of Captain Edward J. Smith before he lost his life in the disaster. The newspaper also gives a report on the 200 bodies which were recovered from the Ocean. These were the bodies of some of those who perished in the disaster. The article focuses mainly on the Washington Inquiry which was set up in the wake of the tragedy to investigate the last moments of R.M.S Titanic and the reasons for the appalling loss of life. The article also reports changes in lifeboat policies for ships. It is reported that in the wake of the Titanic disaster calls had been made to increase the number of lifeboats on the ship, to accommodate every person on board, rather than calculating the number of lifeboats by the weight of the ship. Memorial services arranged in Southampton and Winchester is also a key focus as well as the progress made by the Titanic Relief Fund. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Edward Captain Smith iceberg bereavement Southampton church Titanic Relief Fund Bishop death White Star Line advertisement memorial service disaster sinking McGann James Titanic drowned United States Senate fund raising | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Hampshire Chronicle | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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