Chapter 1: Floating Palaces and the ‘Unsinkable’ Violet Jessop

  1. Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor, ed. John Maxtone-Graham, Chapman & Hall 1998, p.49.

  2. Ibid., p. 58.

  3. Joseph Ismay, United States Senate Inquiry: Day 1 [Transcript]. Retrieved from https://www.titanicinquiry.org/ (original interview held April 19, 1912).

  4. Osbert Sitwell, Great Morning, 1948, Macmillan, London p. 259.

  5. Anon., The Great Cunarder RMS Aquitania, 1914.

  6. Arthur Davis, RIBA interview, 1922, reproduced in Gérard Piouffre, First Class, p. 118.