Author - Tim Coates
Binding - Hardback
Pages - 208
Illustrated
Age - Adult
Size - 18.7cm x 11cm

Product weight 350g

On the 11th April 1912 the White Star Liner SS Titanic set sail from Queenstown (now known as Cobh) in Ireland on her maiden voyage towards New York. Three days later on 14th April at about 11.40 pm she collided with an iceberg. The ship sank less than two and three-quarter hours later with the loss of 1490 lives.

This is the report of the government inquiry into the loss of the SS Titanic which was initiated immediately after the disaster. Lord Mersey as Wreck Commissioner headed the formal investigation assisted by five assessors. Their findings published in July 1912 were unanimous: 'that the loss of the said ship was due to collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was being navigated.'

Also accompanying this report is a return of the expenses incurred by the Board of Trade and other government departments at the time of the inquiry, which was held during May, June and July 1912. The list includes the surviving crew members and their respective positions on board the Titanic.

The book concludes with a reappraisal of the evidence relating to the SS Californian which was investigated in 1990 by the Right Honourable Cecil Parkinson MP following the  discovery of the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.