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The report was issued as Senate Report 806, 62nd Congress, 2nd session, and is called: “Titanic” Disaster: Report of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Pursuant to S. The final report issued by the committee that contains the panel’s conclusions about the causes of the disaster.Other congressional documents issued in 1912 as a result of the Titanic investigation include: This paperback is an exact reprint of the hearing transcripts. 283, Directing the Committee on Commerce to Investigate the Causes Leading to the Wreck of the White Star Liner “Titanic.” There is an index to the testimony broken out by topic–such as “collision, effect of” and “ship light in distance.” Spawned by the popularity of the movie on the Titanic, a paperback reprint of the hearings was published in 1998 by Pocket Books, called The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation. They were issued as Senate Document 726, 62nd Congress, 2nd session, and are called: “Titanic” Disaster: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-Second Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. The subcommittee hearing transcripts, which were published in 1912, are over 1,100 pages long. When the Titanic sank, the Olympic was about 500 miles away. The hearings concluded on May 28, 1912, when Senator Smith visited the Titanic’s sister ship, Olympic, at port in New York, to interview some of its crew. A total of 82 witnesses testified about ice warnings that were ignored, the inadequate number of lifeboats, the ship’s speed, the failure of nearby ships to respond to the Titanic’s distress calls, and the treatment of passengers of different classes. They were the first hearings to be held in that room. The next week the hearings were moved to the new caucus room of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The hearings began on April 19, 1912, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The Titanic hearings were conducted by a special subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee and chaired by Senator William A.

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