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- 2012398921 abstract "Over four years, four ships were lost under different circumstances and 4,000 lives with them - but one thing linked them all: it was John Charles Bigham, Lord Mersey, who was appointed to head the inquiries into each disaster. Mersey is oftern referred to as a 'company man', or a government stooge. But is this the whole truth? Everyone has heard of Titanic and Lusitania but more passengers died when the Empress of Ireland sank in May 1914. That inquiry turned into a head-to-head between an American lawyer and a British one. Did Mersey let the right man win? Was he fair to Captain Lord of the Californian when he blamed him for the loss of so many lives on Titanic? The U-Boat that sank the Falaba with the loss of 104 lives behaved very differently to the one that torpedoed the Lusitania just six weeks later. Did Mersey reflect that in his findings or was he more interested in propaganda than truth?".
- 2012398921 contributor B12570294.
- 2012398921 date "2012".
- 2012398921 description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 186--187) and index.".
- 2012398921 description "Over four years, four ships were lost under different circumstances and 4,000 lives with them - but one thing linked them all: it was John Charles Bigham, Lord Mersey, who was appointed to head the inquiries into each disaster. Mersey is oftern referred to as a 'company man', or a government stooge. But is this the whole truth? Everyone has heard of Titanic and Lusitania but more passengers died when the Empress of Ireland sank in May 1914. That inquiry turned into a head-to-head between an American lawyer and a British one. Did Mersey let the right man win? Was he fair to Captain Lord of the Californian when he blamed him for the loss of so many lives on Titanic? The U-Boat that sank the Falaba with the loss of 104 lives behaved very differently to the one that torpedoed the Lusitania just six weeks later. Did Mersey reflect that in his findings or was he more interested in propaganda than truth?".
- 2012398921 extent "191 pages ;".
- 2012398921 identifier "9780752465715 (pbk)".
- 2012398921 issued "2012".
- 2012398921 language "eng".
- 2012398921 spatial "North Atlantic Ocean".
- 2012398921 subject "G525 .W237 2012".
- 2012398921 subject "Mersey, John C. Bigham (John Charles Bigham), Viscount, 1840-1929.".
- 2012398921 subject "Shipwrecks North Atlantic Ocean History 20th century.".
- 2012398921 title "Four thousand lives lost : the inquiries of Lord Mersey into the sinking of the Titantic, the Empress of Ireland, the Falaba and the Lusitania / Alastair Walker.".
- 2012398921 type "text".