Mr. Ismay: I was calling to them to come in.
Mr. Edwards: Why then did you not give instructions or go yourself either to the other side of the deck or below decks to get people up?
Mr. Ismay: I understood there were people there sending them up.
Mr. Edwards: But you knew there were hundreds who had not come up?
Lord Mersey: Your point, as I understand it now, is that, having regard for his position as managing director, it was his duty to remain on the ship until she went to the bottom?
Mr. Edwards: Frankly, that is so, and I do not flinch from it; but I want to get it from the witness, inasmuch as he took it upon himself to give certain directions at a certain time, why he did not discharge his responsibility after in regard to other persons or passengers.
Mr. Ismay: There were no more passengers who would have got into the boat. The boat was being actually lowered away.
Examined by Sir Robert Finlay for White Star Line:
Mr. Finlay: Have you crossed very often to and from America?
Mr. Ismay: Very often.