Why Didn't This Ship Save Titanic?

On the night the Titanic sank, another ship lay stopped less than ten miles away. Her officers watched the rockets. She never moved. This is the story of the SS Californian and her captain, Stanley Lord. Her only wireless operator switched off his set and went to bed at 11:35 PM, five minutes before the Titanic struck the iceberg. From her bridge, two officers counted eight white rockets. By their sworn evidence, they told their captain twice. He stayed in the chartroom. The Carpathia was 58 miles away and came at full speed. She reached the first lifeboat at 4:10 AM. About 1,500 people were already dead. The British inquiry sat for 36 days and asked more than 25,000 questions. Its finding on the Californian was one sentence: "she might have saved many if not all of the lives that were lost." CHAPTERS 0:00 1:00 AM: the Titanic fires her rockets 1:00 The question two inquiries asked 1:51 11:40 PM: the iceberg and the call for help 2:51 The ice warning that was told to "shut up" 4:14 The Californian watches eight rockets 6:20 Dawn: the Carpathia arrives 7:07 The inquiry, and Lord Mersey's verdict 9:00 What if she had sailed those few miles? SOURCES Every quotation in this film comes from the sworn evidence and reports of 1912. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912: https://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq... United States Senate Inquiry, 1912: https://www.titanicinquiry.org/USInq/... Marine Accident Investigation Branch reappraisal, 1992, which agreed that the rockets were seen but judged that the Californian would have arrived too late: https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/actio... #Titanic #Californian #MaritimeHistory