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The Titanic Reports: The Official Conclusions of the 1912 Inquiries by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commissioner QUOTES

1 " The Frankfurt, however, did not give her latitude or longitude, and after waiting 20 minutes asked the operator of the Titanic, “What is the matter?” To this the Titanic replied that he was a fool (pp. "

― U.S. Senate , The Titanic Reports: The Official Conclusions of the 1912 Inquiries by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commissioner

2 " The impact, while not violent enough to disturb the passengers or crew, or to arrest the ship’s progress, rolled the vessel slightly and tore the steel plating above the turn of the bilge.   "

― U.S. Senate , The Titanic Reports: The Official Conclusions of the 1912 Inquiries by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commissioner

3 " Leading Fireman Barrett saw the water rushing into the forward fireroom from a tear about two feet above the stokehold floor plates and about twenty feet below the waterline, which tear extended two feet into the coal bunker at the forward end of the second fireroom. "

― U.S. Senate , The Titanic Reports: The Official Conclusions of the 1912 Inquiries by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commissioner

4 " Mr. Ismay, after rendering assistance to many passengers, found “C” collapsible, the last boat on the starboard side, actually being lowered. No other people were there at the time. There was room for him and he jumped in. (Ismay, 18559) Had he not jumped in he would merely have added one more life, namely, his own, to the number of those lost. "

― U.S. Senate , The Titanic Reports: The Official Conclusions of the 1912 Inquiries by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commissioner

5 " am not able to blame Captain Smith. He had not the experience which his own misfortune has afforded to those whom he has left behind, and he was doing only that which other skilled men would have done in the same position. It "

― U.S. Senate , The Titanic Reports: The Official Conclusions of the 1912 Inquiries by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commissioner

6 " The evidence shows that he was not trying to make any record passage or indeed any exceptionally quick passage. He was not trying to please anybody, but was exercising his own discretion in the way he thought best. He made a mistake, a very grievous mistake, but one in which, in face of the practice and of past experience, negligence cannot he said to have had any part; and in the absence of negligence it is, in my opinion, impossible to fix Captain Smith with blame. It "

― U.S. Senate , The Titanic Reports: The Official Conclusions of the 1912 Inquiries by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commissioner