Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'

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1. Story
2. Stopped and surrounded by ice, the Californian's operator Cyril Evans broke in on Titanic's traffic to say so. At close range his signal swamped Phillips's headphones and Phillips told him to keep out. Evans listened a little longer, then shut down the set for the night — the reason no distress call ever reached the nearest ship.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. SS Californian
6. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
7. Jack Phillips (John George Phillips)
8. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
9. Connections
10. SS Californian
11. RMS Titanic
12. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
13. Jack Phillips (John George Phillips)
14. Captain Stanley Lord
15. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
16. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
17. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
18. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
19. US Senate report submitted
20. Mersey report published
21. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
22. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
23. Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
24. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
25. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
26. Titanic wreck site
27. Captain Edward John Smith
28. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
29. Thomas Andrews
30. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
31. Titanic's lifeboat complement
32. Olympic-class liner
33. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
34. Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
35. RMS Carpathia
36. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
37. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
38. Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
39. Titanic launched at Belfast
40. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
41. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
42. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
43. Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
44. Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
45. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
46. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
47. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
48. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
49. Iceberg sighted and struck
50. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
51. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
52. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
53. Last boat launched from the davits
54. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
55. Titanic founders
56. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
57. Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
58. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
59. RMS Titanic
60. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1914
61. Jack Phillips (John George Phillips)
62. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
63. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
64. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
65. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
66. US Senate report submitted
67. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London
68. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
69. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
70. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
71. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
72. Titanic founders
73. Evidence
74. Found the loss due to collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was navigated; recorded the ship's particulars, the voyage timings, the ice messages received and the lifeboat complement; held that Titanic exceeded the Board of Trade requirement; found the Californian could have reached her; concluded (incorrectly) that the hull sank intact.