californian

I've decided to rewatch it, while I'm enjoying it, it seems to be kinda harsh on its portrayal of the californian, this make me wonder how the californian controversy was treated in the 50', like in the inquiry reports?

Would it have made any difference if the Titanic repeatedly blew her whistle to get the attention of the Californian? I'm assuming the Californian would have been able to hear the whistle. Perhaps a desperate measure but if I was Captain Smith, I think I would have tried this. If the...

I was reading some general facts about the size of the SS Californian today and it got me thinking. Hypothetically speaking, let’s say the Californian did respond to the Titanic’s distress signals in a timely manner. How much of a difference would it have made? It only had a capacity of 102...

Revisiting whether the Californian had a lookout after she stopped. At the US Hearing, Senator Fletcher asked Capt. Lord about the lookouts he kept on after the engines were stopped: Lord said: "We discontinued the one on the forecastle head. We just kept the on one the crow's nest." So why, as...

I was wondering two things other than lights coming from promenade decks and portholes what other exterior lighting did Titanic have? I was also wondering what the Titanic would have looked like to the Californian at different points in the sinking both with and without binoculars I don't know...

So Near Yet So Far Away Captain Edward Smith ordered the first lifeboats on the Titanic to be lowered on the ship’s port side as he felt the ship closest to the doomed vessel and located just off the bow of Titanic, (widely believed to be the Californian under the command of Captain Stanley...

Seems like a losing proposition for a tramp steamer like Californian to even have a Marconi station. They had no passengers to generate message revenue on the Titanic incident voyage, and even if they had passengers the max amount was 47, and that 47 would not be high rollers who could afford to...

I heard that Chief Officer Stewart and Lord did, but that seems weird to me.

When the Titanic sank, the wireless operator aboard the only nearby ship dozed through its distress calls. But Cyril Evans, who manned the telegraph equipment on the SS Californian, could not have saved the victims of the sinking, expert analysis has concluded...

Hi to everyone, I read an article titled "Captain Lord's Uremia" written in June 2013 ( I attach it with this message if people want to read it) and it says in substance that Captain Lord didn't went to help TITANIC because of Uremia that affected his judgement. That hypothesis sounds weird...

I have done quite a bit of online research recently to try and ascertain what became of relevant ships logs to the 'Californian Incident'. The Met Office Archive in Exeter have only the ships logs for the Minia and Marengo. Despite what they described as having a 'significant collection' of...

My aged Uncle Jim is a Senior Mason, and I asked him earlier this year to find out anything about Charles Victor Groves. He has so far drawn a blank, as needs Groves' lodge number and lodge. I had already mentioned to my Uncle Jim that Groves lived in Ispwich for quite a few years when he...

Dear friends: After several years in the making, I am happy to announce the availability of my new book, “STRANGERS ON THE HORIZON: Titanic and Californian – A Forensic Approach.” As described on the back cover, this book takes a new look into what has been called the Californian affair. It...

In a similar vein to Titanic Honor and Glory's 3D printed models, a person by the name of "vandragon_de" has been 3D printed his own 1:1000 scale models of Titanic, Cunard and the Big Four ocean liners via a Patreon page. However he has also been 3D printing other vessels including the...

New thread opened on the subject of eddy currents in the vicinity of Californian and Titanic.

Nothing big or major here, just a small fact that I thought people might find interesting. In the Imperial War Museum's Archives, there are apparently two letters from Captain William Master (who succeeded Lord and was Californian's final captain) and from a steward named "W Hughes" who both...

Whilst doing general research on the British Newspaper Archive, Julian Atkins asked me to try and find any articles or obituaries on Stone, Groves, Evans, Gibson and Stewart. Currently I've barely found anything but I have found some articles reporting Herbert Stone's disappearance from the SS...

Hi, if I only can afford one book on the Californian question, which is the best one to get? I have heard of The Ship That Stood Still. Is this the best one out there or has there been a more uptodate one with better theories been published since then? Opinions please :)

Thought I would start a topic on inferior refraction as I believe that was the primary cause for the unusual observations between the Titanic and the Californian. I see inferior mirages quite regularly where I live, and I noticed that the witnesses that night were describing the same thing...