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fishing and 261–2

Franklin visits 213–14

guilt 39

at Harrow 73–8

Hearst campaign against 137–8

helps load lifeboats 4–5, 117–18

and Hichens 155–6

and the ice warnings 3–4, 55–6, 115–16, 140, 241–4, 248–9, 265

idea for Titanic 100–2

influence on Smith 165, 263–4

informed of damage 4

initial press questions 59–60

internal struggle 223–4

John Bull campaign against 19–20

joins 1smay, Imrie & Company 79–80

jump into Collapsible C 6–8, 9

later years 266–8

leaves Titanic 5–8, 9, 117–18,

I48–9, 253–4, 272–3

letters awaiting return 207–8

letters of consolation 214–15

life in New York 86–7

Lightoller’s account of actions 129

Lightoller’s defence of 145–53, 272

loss of honour 40

love of Titanic 39–40

Lowe’s testimony on 144–5

as manager of the White Star Line agency, New York 86–7

marriage 87–9

married life 89–92

mental condition 145–6

Mersey exonerates 257

messages to Franklin 46–7, 5I–4,

141, 161, 246, 246–7

moral duty 252–4, 257

morbid introspection 2I4

newspapers blame 120–I nightmares 208–9

obituaries 27I–2

only published self-defence 139–40

orders Slow Ahead after collision 151–3

plans return voyage 51–4

portrayal in A Night to Remember (film) 280

portrayals of 23

position 22–4

press release, 23

April 139–40

press statement 131–3

Rayner on 50

refused permission to return home 133, 136, 142

relationship with Edith Russell 227–8

relationship with father 79–8I, 151

relationship with Lightoller 149–50, 236

relationship with Marian Thayer 198–9, 204–5, 206, 216–I8, 2I9–20, 223

relationship with Marian Thayer aboard Titanic 202–3, 2I9–20

released from US inquiry 162

request to be released from US inquiry 157–8

rescued 29

resignation as president of 1MM 262

retirement plans 107–8, 218–I9

return to England 163, 203–4

return to New York 162

reunited with Florence 206–7

role on Titanic 24, 114, II5, 160–1, 240–I, 250–I, 256, 263–4

in Scotland 211–13

scrapbooks 25

Sealby on 142

self-loathing 225

sells White Star Line 93–100

sense of inferiority 79–80, 81

siblings 70, 80–1

and Smith 115

social standing 23, 76, 125, 260, 262

statement to US inquiry 113

as super captain 251, 265–6

testimony to US inquiry 10, 14, 39, 112–23, 160–2

and Titanic ’s lifeboat capacity 119

and Titanic’s speed 249–51

tomb 268

Tom’s letter 212,212–13

tragedy of 274–5

as tragic hero 281–2

turns down partnership in Ismay, Imrie and Co. 87

unpopularity with the press 86

voyage on the Olympic 102–4

voyage to New Zealand 85–6

word of survival spreads 49

The World’s Exile 260

Yamsi codename 48, 51

Yamsi messages 48, 51–4, 141, 145–7, 161, 234–5, 246

the yellow press and 136–8

Young on 234

Ismay, James 80, 81, 88, 93, 94, 107

Ismay, John Sealby 61

Ismay, Joseph 61

Ismay, Margaret 89, 106, 218, 273

Ismay, Margaret (Nee Bruce) 63, 70, 83, 84, 89, 91, 93, 94, 98, 104, 232

Ismay, Mary 70

Ismay, Thomas Henry achievement 92–3

art collection 84

background 61–4

character 67, 68–9

death 92

funeral 93

JBI turns down partnership offer 87

and JBI’s education 73, 76–7

and JBI’s marriage 88

Millais portrait 84

and the Oceanic 66

Relationship with JBI 79–81

relationship with JBI 151

retirement 89

turns down baronetcy 69–70

will 94

Ismay, Tom 80, 92, 212,212–13

Ismay Line, The (Oldham) 77, 79–81, 272

James, Henry 96, 166, 182, 285–6

Jameson, Dr Leander Starr 223

Jameson Raid, the 232–3

Jeddah, SS 175, 276

Jekyll, Gertrude 267

Jersey Journal 8

Jessop, Violet 14

Jewell, Archie 230

John Bull 19–20

Jones, Ernest 156

Jones, Mary 215

Joseph, Anna 12

Joseph, Catherine 12

Joseph, Michael 12

Journal of Commerce 271

‘Karain: A Memory’ (Conrad) 14, 277–9

Kerr, Mark 2I4–I5

Kiamie, Adele Najib 12

Kipling, Rudyard 223–4

Korzeniowski, Apollo 191–2

Kylsant, Lord 266

Lapland 52, 133, 154–6

Lardner, Dionysius 64

Lawrence, D. H. 286

Lawton, Frank 280

Lee Bing 13

Leyland, Frederick 82

Leyland Line 94

Lightoller, Second Officer Charles account of Astor’s final moments 111 account of evacuation of Titanic 130

account of Ismay’s actions 129

account of Ismay’s departure 6

account of loss of Titanic 38–9, 127–31, 235–6, 281

appearance 128

appointment to Titanic 156

arrival in Washington 138–9

and Beesley’s letter to The Times 33

on British Board of Trade inquiry 233

British Board of Trade inquiry testimony 235–7

career 38

defence of Ismay 145–53, 272

duty to White Star Line 153,

156–7, 222–3

escape from Titanic 38–9, 127–8,

131 and Hichens 155–6

and the ice warning 130, 147–8

knowledge of Titanic ’s layout 6

memoirs 280–1 opinion of US inquiry 130–1 portrayal in A Night to Remember (film) 280

relationship with Ismay 149–50, 236

religious beliefs 156

rescue of Bride 136

on sinking of Titanic 15

Smith’s orders to 44

testimony to US inquiry 127–31, 145–53

use of language 156–7

women and children only policy 159

and the Yamsi messages 145–7

Lightoller, Sylvia 281

liners

Conrad on 184–5

design 67–8

development of 64–8

dining rooms 67–8

increasing size of 100–1

luxury 67–8, 85, 186

Lines, Elizabeth 263

Ling Hee 13

Literary Digest, The 185

Liverpool 70–1, 81–2, 194, 207, 266

Liverpool and London Steamship Protection and Indemnity Association 266

Lloyd’s Weekly News 20–1, 234

London 229–30

London and Globe Insurance Company 266

London and North-Western Railway 266

London Budget, The 185

London Evening News 271

London Opinion 64

Long, Judge Charles L. 9

Lord, Walter 7, 17, 25, 46, 260, 280, 281

Lord Hartington’s Commission 69, 88

Lord Jim (Conrad) 39, 196, 222, 271–2, 287

appeal of 180

Beesley uses as model 37

Captain Marlow 173–4, 274–6

Captain Marlow’s previous appearances 181–2

Captain Marlow’s role 178, 180–1, 182–3, 270

claims to realism 179

close 270

comparison with Hamlet 179

division into two parts 269–70

Jim aboard the Patna 168–9

Jim’s death 269

Jim’s escape from the Patna 169–73, 174

model for Jim 175–6

narration 178

opening 178

origins 175, 276

Patna Inquiry 173, 178

plot 177

preface 175–6

publication 177

reviews 177, 178, 178–80, 269–70

the stranger within 174

writing of 176–7

Loss of the SS Titanic: Its Story and Its

Lessons, The (Beesley) 32–7

Lowe, Fifth Officer Harold 18, 144–5