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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.
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, 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
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On 10 April, Titanic sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. On 14 April, in the Atlantic, the ship receives a number of ice warnings from steamers, which are relayed to Captain Edward Smith, who orders a lookout. That evening, the SS Californian spots floating ice in the distance and tries to send a telegraph message to Titanic.
The debris field was found close to the Titanic wreck
At 23:30, 10 minutes before Titanic hit the iceberg, Californian ' s sole radio operator, Cyril Evans, shut his set down for the night and went to bed. [124] On the bridge her third officer, Charles Groves, saw a large vessel to starboard around 10 to 12 mi (16 to 19 km) away. It made a sudden turn to port and stopped.
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