Lusitania | British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry | Day 1 - in Camera testimony

In the Wreck Commissioner's Court.

CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTER .


PROCEEDINGS


in Camera on the 15th and 18th June 1915,


BEFORE


THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD MERSEY ,



Wreck Commissioner of the United Kingdom ,

WITH


ADMIRAL SIR F. S. INGELFIELD, K.C.B.,

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER H. J. HERN,

CAPTAIN DAVID DAVIES,

CAPTAIN JOHN SPEDDING

Acting as Assessors

on a Formal Investigation ordered
by the Board of Trade

into the

Loss of the s.s. "Lusitania."

Tuesday, 15th June, 1915.


Testimony taken "In Camera"

The Commissioner:
I need hardly say to you gentlemen that what passes in this room is to be considered as being in the strictest confidence , and is not to be mentioned by anybody to anybody at all outside. I hope that I have the assent of all of you to that position.

Witness.

William Thomas Turner - Captain - ss "Lusitania"
Testimony

Adjourned to to-morrow at 10.30 o'clock.