“Do the regulations prescribe whether one or two operators should be aboard the ocean vessels?” “Yes, on ships like the Titanic and Olympic two are carried,” said Mr. Marconi. “The Carpathia, a smaller boat, carries one. The Carpathia’s wireless apparatus is a short-distance equipment. The maximum efficiency of the Carpathia’s wireless, I should say, was 200 miles. The wireless equipment on the Titanic was available 500 miles during the daytime and 1000 miles at night.” “Do you consider that the Titanic was equipped with the latest improved wireless apparatus?” “Yes, I should say that it had the very best.” Charles Herbert Lightholder, second officer of the Titanic, followed Mr. Marconi on the stand. Mr. Lightholder said he understood the maximum speed of the Titanic, as shown by its trial tests, to have been 22½ to 23 knots. Senator Smith asked if the rule requiring life-saving apparatus to be in each room for each passenger was complied with. LIFE-SAVING EQUIPMENT INSPECTED. “Everything was complete,” said Lightholder. Sixteen lifeboats, of which four were collapsible, were on the Titanic, he added. During the tests, he said, Captain Clark, of the British Board of Trade, was aboard the Titanic to inspect its life-saving equipment. “How thorough are these captains of the Board of Trade in inspecting ships?” asked Senator Smith. “Captain Clark is so thorough that we called him a nuisance.” Lightholder said he was in the sea with a lifebelt on one hour and a half. “What time did you leave the ship?” “I didn’t leave it.” “Did it leave you?” “Yes, sir.” “Where were you when the Titanic sank?” “In the officers’ quarters.” “Were all the lifeboats gone then?” “All but one. I was about fifteen feet from it. It was hanging in the tackle, and they were trying to get it over the bulwarks the last time I saw it. The first officer, Mr. Murdock, who lost his life, was managing the tackle.” The last boat, a flat collapsible, to put off was the one on top the officers’ quarters, Lightholder said. Men jumped upon it on deck and waited for the water to float it off. Once at sea, it upset. The forward funnel fell into the water, just missing the raft, and overturning it. The funnel probably killed persons in the water. “This was the boat I eventually got on,” declared Lightholder. “No one was on it when I reached it. Later about thirty men clambered out of the water on to it. All had on life preservers.” DIED AND SLIPPED OFF INTO THE WATER. “Did any passengers get on?” asked Senator Smith. “J. B. Thayer, the second Marconi operator and Colonel Gracie I recall,” said the witness. “All the rest were firemen taken out of the water. Two of these died that night and slipped off into the water. I think the senior Marconi operator did that.” “Did you see any attempt to get women to go who would not?” “Yes.” “Why would they not go?” “I hadn’t time to learn.” “Did any ask for their family to go?” “Yes, one or two.” “Did any families go?” “No.”