Captain Stanley Lord

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1. Story
2. Master of the SS Californian, born 1877. Having stopped his ship for the night in ice, he was twice informed that a nearby vessel was firing white rockets and did not order his wireless operator woken. Both 1912 inquiries held that his ship could have reached Titanic; Mersey's finding effectively ended his career with Leyland. He spent five decades seeking to clear his name, and a 1992 British reappraisal accepted that the Californian was probably too far off to have arrived in time while still condemning the failure to act.
3. Knowledge
4. Captain Stanley Lord
5. Connections
6. SS Californian
7. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
8. Mersey report published
9. Evidence
10. 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.
11. Concluded the Californian was probably some 17 to 20 nautical miles from Titanic rather than the 8 to 10 miles found in 1912, and that while she likely could not have arrived before the sinking, her failure to respond to the rockets was not excusable.