Initial reports of any disaster, even in today's world of high speed communications, are often confused and unreliable. The first press statements that there was 'no danger of loss of life' were soon proved to be widely optimistic.
15-16th April 1912 PRO reference MT9/920 B [no.189] and MT 9/920 C [No.221]
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The Making of History
| Register for Transmission to Registrar-General
of Shipping and Seamen | The Report of
Survey of An Emigrant Ship |
| Titanic's boilers |
Leaving for the New World
| Certificate for Clearance |
Boarding Card | Luggage Stickers |
Steerage - the Aks family |
On Board
| Passenger List | Music
Booklet | Notes for First-Class Passengers
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| 1st Class Dinner Plate |
| First-Class Lunch Menu | The
"Last Dinner" Menu |
Disaster
| Telegraph transcripts from Titanic intercepted
By SS Birma |
Lifeboats and Carpathia
| Photograph of a Survivor climbing aboard
SS Carpathia | Landing Card |
Aftermath
| Correspondence from the White Star Line
to the Board of Trade concerning loss of Titanic |
| Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Worker's
Union |
| The politician's responce | Commemorative
Medal |
British and American Inquiries
| Sub-committee of the Committee on Commerce
of the United States Senate | A
Report on the Loss of the "Titanic" (S.S) |
| Report on the Senate Committee enquiry
report into the loss of the Titanic |