Four Thousand Lives Lost : The Inquiries of Lord Mersey Into the Sinking of the Titanic, the Empress of Ireland, the Falaba and the Lusitania

Over four years, four ships were lost under different circumstances and 4,000 lives with them — but one thing linked them all: it was John Charles Bigham, Lord Mersey, who was appointed to head the inquiries into each disaster. Mersey is often referred to as a 'company man', or a government stooge.