The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation
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The “un-sinkable” luxury liner Titanic struck an iceberg shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912, and sank in the early hours of April 15. More than 1,500 people died. The Senate instructed a special investigative subcommittee to convene just days after the tragedy to determine “the causes leading up to the destruction of the steamship Titanic, with its attendant and unparalleled loss of life, so shocking to the people of the world.” The transcripts of the hearing provide gripping and chilling stories from the survivors of the disaster.