United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic while so many British crew have been saved." The American press welcomed Smith's findings and accepted his recommendations, commending the senator for establishing the key facts of the disaster. United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic The sinking of the RMS "Titanic" on April 15, 1912 resulted in an inquiry by the United States Senate. Chaired by Senator William Alden Smith, the inquiry was a subcommittee of the Senate's Commerce Committee. The hearings began in New York on April 19, 1912, later moving to Washington, D.C., concluding on May 25, 1912 with a return visit to
RMS Titanic in popular culture of the film "Atlantic". Noël Coward's highly successful 1931 play "Cavalcade", adapted into an Oscar-winning film of the same name in 1933, has a romantic plot which features a shock ending set aboard the "Titanic". In 1974 the disaster was used as the backdrop for the play "Titanic", which D. Brian Anderson characterises as "a one-act sexual farce". The passengers and crew eagerly await the arrival of the iceberg but the ship fails to find it. While "Titanic" wanders the ocean looking for the iceberg, those aboard fill the time by making a series of sexual revelations, such as the