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Titanic 's on-duty wireless operator, Jack Phillips, was busy clearing a backlog of passengers' messages with the wireless station at Cape Race, Newfoundland, 800 miles (1,300 km) away, at the time. Evans's message that SS Californian was stopped and surrounded by ice was heard very strongly on Titanic due to the relative proximity of the two ...
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.
SS Californian, which had been in the ice and tried to inform Titanic of it One of the most controversial issues examined by the inquiries was the role played by SS Californian , which had been only a few miles from Titanic but had not picked up distress calls or responded to signal rockets.
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 ...
SS Californian, a cargo-passenger ship of the Leyland Line, notable for inaction while near the sinking RMS Titanic in April 1912; the ship was built in 1901 and sunk on 9 November 1915, during World War I, by the German submarine U-35; SS Californian, the name of the T2 tanker SS Sackett's Harbor between 1970 and 1975
RMS Titanic Inc., a Georgia-based firm, holds the legal rights to salvage the wreck of the ship, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912. The Titan submersible disaster killed all five
A U.S. Navy analysis of acoustic data “detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion” near the Titan around the time it lost communications Sunday, a senior Navy official said.
Cyril Evans, the Californian 's radio operator, was the last to radio a message to the Titanic at 22:55. As requested by Captain Stanley Lord, Evans wanted to inform the Titanic that the Californian was surrounded by ice and had stopped for the night. However, the message lacked the abbreviation MSG, and Evans addressed his colleague informally ...