Loss of the Steamship "Titanic

This is the official transcript of the British Court of Inquiry convened in the weeks following the Titanic's disappearance into the North Atlantic. Here, in their own words, survivors describe the collision's chaos, officers testify to the ship's construction and the decisions that doomed it, and experts dissect every mechanical failure. The document preserves the raw testimony of 1912 before mythmaking took hold: the wireless operator who sent distress calls until the end, the designers explaining watertight compartment limitations, the lookout confessing he never saw the iceberg until it was upon them. What emerges is not melodrama but bureaucratic precision meeting catastrophic human failure. This is primary source material for anyone who has ever wondered what the inquiry that shaped maritime safety regulations actually heard. It is, finally, the closest we can come to sitting in that courtroom and listening to history speak in its own voice.