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SS Californian was a British Leyland Line steamship. She is thought to have been the only ship in sight of the Titanic , or at least her rockets, during that ship's sinking . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The crew took no action to assist.
Titanic covered a distance of about 80 nautical miles (92 mi; 150 km), ... SS Californian, which had been in the ice and tried to inform Titanic of it.
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 SS Californian was not only in the range of the Titanic, but crew members saw their flares and that the ship was uneven. The crew notified Captain Stanley Lord, but he did not think they were ...
She was also adamant regarding the controversy surrounding SS Californian, a ship that was only a few miles from Titanic and yet failed to respond to distress rockets and calls for help. [9] Hart claimed the vessel was less than 10 miles (16 km) from Titanic, not 19 miles (31 km) as was previously believed: I saw [the Californian]. It was ...
Crew members aboard the Californian see the rockets and note the Titanic listing. Captain Lord of the Californian is notified but just orders them to contact with the morse lamp and goes back to sleep. At 12:36 a.m., a ship replies to the Titanic's distress call, but it is 58 miles away and will arrive too late.
On April 10, 1912, the Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage from Southhampton, England to New York City. But a few days into the trip, the ship hit an iceberg and sank within hours. Approximately ...
Much nearer was SS Californian, which had warned Titanic of ice a few hours earlier. Apprehensive at his ship being caught in a large field of drift ice, Californian ' s captain, Stanley Lord, had decided at about 22:00 to halt for the night and wait for daylight to find a way through the ice field. [122]