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SS Californian

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Leyland Line cargo steamer under Captain Stanley Lord, stopped for the night in the same ice field on 14–15 April 1912. Her only wireless operator had closed the set and gone to bed shortly before Titanic's distress call. Her officers watched a nearby vessel fire white rockets, reported it to the master, and took no effective action. Both 1912 inquiries found she could have reached Titanic; a 1992 British reappraisal placed her further off than Mersey believed, while still holding the failure to respond inexcusable.

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  1. Story
  2. Leyland Line cargo steamer under Captain Stanley Lord, stopped for the night in the same ice field on 14–15 April 1912. Her only wireless operator had closed the set and gone to bed shortly before Titanic's distress call. Her officers watched a nearby vessel fire white rockets, reported it to the master, and took no effective action. Both 1912 inquiries found she could have reached Titanic; a 1992 British reappraisal placed her further off than Mersey believed, while still holding the failure to respond inexcusable.
  3. Knowledge
  4. SS Californian
  5. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
  6. Captain Stanley Lord
  7. Connections
  8. Captain Stanley Lord
  9. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
  10. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
  11. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
  12. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
  13. US Senate report submitted
  14. Mersey report published
  15. SS Californian
  16. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
  17. Mersey report published
  18. SS Californian
  19. RMS Titanic
  20. Board of Trade Life-Saving Appliances Rules (1894)
  21. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
  22. British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry opens in London
  23. Mersey report published
  24. Evidence
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
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