Ian Donaldson Titanic: The Truth On Trial Paperback Book

This unique work challenges the familiar narrative of the Titanic disaster and the conduct of the official British Inquiry. Many are unaware that during the British Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic, prominent witnesses testified in defence of past decisions made by various Government committees and officials. Decisions which, among other things, resulted in too few lifeboats for hundreds of passengers and crew, not just for those on the Titanic. Who were these people? And why was so much credibility attached to their answers? Why was there no challenge made to their claims?The significance of this part of the Inquiry has largely been forgotten or overlooked by historians and authors, presumably dismissed as irrelevant. Only now is this damning evidence brought to a wider readership. During the authors investigations into the Inquiry proceedings, documents were uncovered in the National Archives which revealed discrepancies in the evidence brought before Lord Mersey. These papers show the shipping casualties documented by Lloyds Shipping Register were inconsistent with figures stated by these witnesses during the Inquiry. These records indicated many more passenger and cargo vessels came to grief during the perilous North Atlantic passage and even more across the worlds oceans and seas. This is a remarkable account, more enthralling than any work of fiction of an Inquiry that took place over a hundred years ago, and the controversial decisions reached by Lord Mersey still... | Ian Donaldson Titanic: The Truth On Trial Paperback Book