Harold Sydney Bride was a British merchant seaman and wireless operator who served as the second operator aboard the RMS Titanic during her ill-fated maiden voyage.
Harold Bride, c. 1911
Bride being carried off the Carpathia, his badly frozen feet wrapped in thick bandages.
Blue plaque on Bride's home in Bromley, London
The sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 14–15, 1912 resulted in an inquiry by a subcommittee of the Commerce Committee of the United States Senate, chaired by Senator William Alden Smith. The hearings
Senator William Alden Smith chaired the inquiry.
Surviving Titanic wireless operator Harold Bride (sitting; center) testifies at the committee meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York; to his right is Marconi Company chairman Guglielmo Marconi.
The opening day of the inquiry at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, with J. Bruce Ismay being questioned
Witnesses at the Senate inquiry