Reduced Speed near Reported Ice
Recommends that ships reduce speed during darkness or alter course when ice is reported near their intended track.
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Historical records for Great Britain in 1912
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July
Stronger Lifesaving Appliance Inspection
Recommends more searching official inspection of lifeboats and other life-saving appliances before passenger ships sail.
Titanic British Inquiry Findings
Concludes the British formal investigation and delivers the Wreck Commissioner's report on Titanic's loss.
Trained Lifeboat Crew Requirement
Recommends training additional crew members in boat work whenever deck crews alone cannot adequately man all lifeboats.
Watertight Deck Protection Review
Recommends investigation of watertight decks and methods of sealing openings so flooding can be contained more effectively.
Weekly Emergency Drill Programme
Recommends boat, fire and watertight-door drills after departure and at least weekly during voyages, with drills recorded in the log.
August
Death of William Booth
Death of William Booth
Malta Dockyard Administrative Command
Carden assumes responsibility for dockyard administration, repair capacity and naval support facilities at Malta.
Malta Dockyard Appointment
Carden becomes Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in August 1912.
September
British Composer Dies
Leaves an influential body of choral, orchestral and chamber music.
Death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Dies in Croydon at the age of thirty-seven.
Birth of Ian Kinloch MacGregor
Birth of Ian Kinloch MacGregor
Solemn League and Covenant
Leads mass Unionist resistance to the proposed Dublin parliament.
Ulster Covenant
Signs the Ulster Covenant opposing Irish Home Rule.
Northern Party March Begins
Campbell leads the weakened Northern Party away from Inexpressible Island on the long journey back toward Cape Evans.
Northern Party Return March Begins
Campbell leads the Northern Party away from its winter cave and south toward Cape Evans.
Northern Party Return March Begins
Priestley leaves Inexpressible Island with the Northern Party for the long sledge journey back to Cape Evans.
October
Search Party
Leads the search for Scott's missing polar party.
Northern Party Food Cache Found
Priestley and his companions find a previously laid food cache, improving the party's prospects during the final stage of their return.
Northern Party Recovery
Browning's condition improves after the returning party reaches cached food that provides a welcome change from its winter diet.
Polar Party Search Begins
Atkinson leads the spring search south to determine the fate of Scott and the missing Polar Party.
November
Northern Party Reaches Cape Evans
Campbell brings the complete Northern Party safely back to Cape Evans after its unexpected second winter.
Northern Party Reaches Cape Evans
Campbell brings all six members of the Northern Party safely to Cape Evans after their second Antarctic winter and overland return.
Northern Party Reaches Cape Evans
Priestley reaches Cape Evans with the Northern Party after the difficult coastal return journey.
Northern Party Return
Northern Party reaches Cape Evans after surviving winter.
Bodies of Scott Wilson and Bowers Found
The searchers recover records and build a snow cairn over the tent.
Death of Robert Falcon Scott
Their final camp became their tomb; a high cairn of snow was erected over it, topped by a roughly fashioned cross. The bodies of Scott and his companions were discovered by a search party on 12 November 1912 and their records retrieved
Polar Party Found
Searchers find the tent containing Scott, Wilson and Bowers.
Polar Party Records Recovered
Atkinson's search party recovers diaries, letters and expedition records from the tent before building a cairn over the dead.
Polar Party Search
Joins the search party that finds the polar party's final tent.
Polar Party Search Discovery
The bodies of Scott and his companions were discovered by a search party on 12 November 1912 and their records retrieved.
Polar Tent Discovery
Atkinson's search party finds the final camp containing Scott, Wilson and Bowers and recovers their records.
Polar Tent Discovery
Hooper is among the search party that discovers the tent containing Scott, Wilson and Bowers.
Search Cairn
Uses skis from the search party to mark the burial cairn.
Search Party
Joins the search party that finds Scott's last camp.
Election
Loses the Bow by-election when standing as an independent womens suffrage supporter
Resignation of George Lansbury
Resigns from the Labour Party
Suffrage
Loses the Bow by-election when standing as an independent womens suffrage supporter
Polar Party Search Expedition
Atkinson leads the search party south from Cape Evans to determine the fate of Scott's polar party.
Polar Search Party Sledging
Hooper hauls with the search party sent south from Cape Evans to investigate the disappearance of the Polar Party.
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