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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.
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.
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
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 ...
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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.
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.