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The involvement of the Californian in the sinking of the Titanic is examined in the 2012 BBC TV drama SOS – The Titanic Inquiry. The drama tells the story of the original British Inquiry into the sinking of Titanic , which decided, using the facts that were available at the time, whether the Californian was in near enough proximity to the ...
Stanley Phillip Lord (13 September 1877 – 24 January 1962) was the British captain of the SS Californian, the nearest ship to the Titanic on the night she sank on 15 April 1912, and, depending on which sources are believed, likely the only ship to see the Titanic, or at least her rockets (also known as flares), during the sinking.
The opening stages of the inquiry are covered in chapters 12 and 13 ('Yamsi' and 'Investigation') in Titanic's Last Secrets (Brad Matson, 2008) ISBN 0446582050; Chapter 2 ('He Ought to Have Gone Down with the Ship') of The Titanic Story: Hard Choices, Dangerous Decisions (Stephen Cox, 1999) ISBN 0812693965
The Attorney General, Sir Rufus Isaacs, presented the inquiry with a list of 26 key questions to be answered. When news of the disaster reached the UK government the responsibility for initiating an inquiry lay with the Board of Trade, the organisation responsible for British maritime regulations and whose inspectors had certified Titanic as seaworthy before her maiden voyage.
In March 1912, Phillips was sent to Belfast, Ireland, to be the senior wireless operator on board Titanic for her maiden voyage. He was joined by junior wireless operator Harold Bride. [3] Stories have appeared that Phillips knew Bride before Titanic, but Bride insisted they had never met before Belfast. [1]
Even if the Californian managed to make it to the sinking ship, it did not have many resources to help. We may never know if the Titanic could have been saved, but it still makes us think over 100 ...
The book also notes that even if SS Californian had started relatively quickly after Titanic started sending rockets (or wireless distress signals), she would certainly have not been in a position to save all those lost; perhaps an extra few hundred at most, due to the lack of crew on board Californian to man additional boats, the impossibility ...
After the sinking, he testified at both the British Titanic inquiry and United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic. [5] [4] On 25 May 1912, just a few weeks after the sinking, Barrett was working on Titanic ' s sister ship RMS Olympic where he was questioned by Senator William Alden Smith as part of an investigation. [8]