British passengers’ testimony

[Lisa Grunwald]

Did any British survivors testify in U.S., or were they asked to return to England to testify there?

 

[Thomas Krom]

Did any British survivors testify in U.S., or were they asked to return to England to testify there?

Joseph Bruce Ismay and Hugh Woolner both testified at the American Senate Inquiry and are the only English passengers to have done so, since Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom at the time Daniel Buckley can technically be counted too.

 

[Lisa Grunwald]

Thanks for this! I should have been clearer in my question! I‘m trying to figure out where the testimony of passengers took place. Am I right that the Senate investigation involved crew as well as passengers (both British and American), while the British inquiry, with the exception of Lady Duff-Gordon, focused on the crew and the technical aspects of the ship?

 

[Thomas Krom]

Thanks for this! I should have been clearer in my question! I‘m trying to figure out where the testimony of passengers took place. Am I right that the Senate investigation involved crew as well as passengers (both British and American), while the British inquiry, with the exception of Lady Duff-Gordon, focused on the crew and the technical aspects of the ship?

The majority of the survivors that were questioned at both inquiries were crewmembers. Let me list all passengers questioned for you:

The American Senate Inquiry:

Day 1 (19th of April 1912):
First class passenger Joseph Bruce Ismay (1862-1937)
Day 4 (23rd of April 1912)
First class passenger Arthur Godfrey Peuchen (1859-1929)
Day 11 (29th of April 1912)
First class passenger Hugh Woolner (1866-1925)
Day 11 (30th of April 1912)
First class passenger Dickinson H. Bishop (1887-1961)
First class passenger Helen Margaret Bishop (1892-1916)
First class passenger Archibald Gracie IV (1859-1912) (was later recalled)
First class passenger Joseph Bruce Ismay (1862-1937) (was later recalled)
First class passenger Charles Emil Henry Stengel (1857-1914)
Day 12 (2nd of May 1912)
First class passenger Ella Holmes White (1856-1942)
Day 13 (3rd of May 1912)
Third class passenger Olaus Jørgensen Abelseth (1886-1980)
Third class passenger Daniel Buckley (1890-1918)
First class passenger Norman Campbell Chambers (1884-1966)
First class passenger George Achilles Harder (1886-1959)
Day 14 (4th of May 1912)
Third class passenger Benoît Picard (1878-1941)
Day 15 (9th of May 1912)
First class passenger Mahala Douglas (1864-1945) (affidavit)
Day 16 (16th of May 1912)
First class passenger Ida Daisy Minahan (1879-1919) (affidavit)
First class passenger Emily Maria Ryerson (1863-1939) (affidavit)
Day 18 (25th of May 1912):
First class passenger Catherine Elizabeth Crosby (1847-1920) (affidavit)
First class passenger James Robert McGough (1876-1937) (affidavit)
Second class passenger Imanita Parrish Shelley (1887-1954) (affidavit)
First class passenger Eleanor Widener (1861-1937) (affidavit)

The British Board Of Trade Wreck Commissioner Inquiry

Day 10 (17th of May 1912):
First class passenger Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon (1862-1931)
Day 11 (20th of May 191
First class passenger Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon (1862-1931)
First class passenger Lucy Christiana Duff Gordon (1863-1935)
Day 16 (4th of June 1912)
First class passenger Joseph Bruce Ismay (1862-1937)
Day 17 (5th of June 1912)
First class passenger Joseph Bruce Ismay (1862-1937)

Limitation of Liability Hearings:

First class passenger Grace Scott Bowen (1867-1945)
First class passenger Joseph Bruce Ismay (1862-1937)
First class passenger Elizabeth Lindsey Lines (1861-1942)
First class passenger George Alexander Lucien Rheims (1879-1963)
First class passenger Emily Maria Ryerson (1863-1939)
Some of the following passengers are known to have given depositions at this hearings, which includes:
Second class passenger Lillian Renouf (1882-1933)
Third class passenger Eugene Patrick Daly (1883-1965)
First class passenger Marion Estelle Kenyon (1871-1958)
First class passenger John “Jack” Borland Thayer III (1894-1945)
However their dispositions are presently lost.

I hope this helps. The American Inquiry is known to have moved from New York to Washington at some point.

 

[Lisa Grunwald]

This is so great! Thank you so much!

 

[Thomas Krom]

This is so great! Thank you so much!

You're welcome, I hope it will help.