Three days after the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic, the Carpathia, a British transatlantic liner of the Cunard Line that will come to the aid of the shipwrecked Titanic arrives in New York Harbor. New York where a congressional hearing will conclude that the emergency measures on board the Titanic had been severely neglected and to blame the captain of the ship, who had ignored the warnings of danger.
The British government also conducted its own investigation, beginning on May 2, 1912. A panel of experts heard testimony from survivors over 36 days, including the Duff-Gordon family. Cosmo was questioned on the 10th day of the hearing and his wife on the 11th - Read " The sinking of the Titanic lived and told by a rich British family ".
In addition, all the passengers of the lifeboat No. 1 were asked to make a sworn statement. Francatelli's affidavit vehemently denied the unfounded accusations of corruption. The report resulting from the British investigation reprimanded the passengers of lifeboat No. 1 for not rendering assistance to the stranded passengers.
The launching of lifeboat #1 was depicted in Walter Lord's 1958 film adaptation, "A Night to Remember". A scene in James Cameron's 1997 Titanic where Cosmo Duff-Gordon remarks that turning around and picking up the survivors was out of the question was cut from the final film version.
The Duff-Gordons had booked their passage on the first available ship to New York, which happened to be the Titanic, to attend the opening of Lucy's new showrooms on West 57th Street. She escaped death again when she cancelled her trip on the Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German submarine on May 7, 1915. Although they remained married, the Duff-Gordons became strangers to each other and went their separate ways.
Wilkes-Barre's son Frauenthal, born in Pennsylvania to German Jewish immigrants, was traveling aboard the Titanic with his brother Henry, a successful New York physician specializing in the treatment of chronic joint disease, and his new wife Clara Henry, née Heinsheimer, whom he had married in France only two weeks earlier. All three were saved by jumping into lifeboat #5, but Henry broke the ribs of one of the boat's occupants, Annie Stengel. Coincidentally, Mrs. Stengel was the wife of Charles EH Stengel, the fifth passenger in lifeboat #1.
Following the disaster, the owner of the menu Abraham Salomon retired and refused to talk about the sinking of the Titanic for the rest of his life. Read - The menu of the last lunch of the Titanic sold at auction
Following his rescue by the Carpathia, Isaac Frauenthal formed a committee with several survivors, including American socialite Margaret "Unsinkable Molly" Brown, to recognize the bravery of Captain Arthur Rostron of the Carpathia and his crew. A month after their rescue, Brown honored Captain Rostron's heroism with a silver cup and presented medals to the 320 crew members.
