Titanic, Part III. “How could an unsinkable ship go down with so many lives lost?”
The Titanic, ready for launch from the Harland and Wolff shipyard, in Belfast Harbour, 1911.
In April of 1912, Senator William Alden Smith’s investigation of the Titanic disaster had the full attention of the British and American press. American newspapermen praised Smith’s relentless attention to detail. British journalists, on the other hand, mindful …
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