THE CALIFORNIAN, CARPATHIA AND THE TITANIC

THE CALIFORNIAN, CARPATHIA AND THE TITANIC

15l7 people had perished in 1912 because of the sinking of the TITANIC. Off
Canada’s NEW FOUNDLAND.

The SENATE COMMITTEE criticized the Captain of the boat CARPATHIA for not helping the sinking TITANIC.

The CONGRESS gave the CARPATHIA the Medal of Honor for saving the people as best as she could.

Which now specific person is to blame them (the TITANIC) was told three different times of ice; she didn’t heed the warning.

The CALIFORNIAN had the same concerns as the TITANIC. The CALIFORNIAN saw the signals of distress coming from the sinking ship. They concluded that if the CARPATHIA had seen the signals earlier she could have same more or all of the people on board the ship.

Eight other ships were in the vicinity of the TITANIC. The OLYMPIC was the furthest away.

The passengers of the TITANIC saw the light of an unknown boat. This was the CALIFORNIAN which was less than 20 miles away.

If they had filled up the boats on the sinking ship a lot more people could have been saved. The life boats could carry up to 1176 people but the boats were not even half way full.

There weren’t any kind of distress signal for the passengers on the TITANIC to alarm them. It was about 20 minutes later before any kind of warning was sounded.

The crew was insufficient with the rules as they have only been through the drill only once.

The TITANIC was sailing with both sides of ice between them.

The light of the sinking ship was clearly visible to the CALIFORNIAN.

The distress signal was ignored from the TITANIC. And it was said that the CALIFORNIAN was a lot closer than 29 miles away.

They have concluded that the Captain of the CALIFORNIAN was in gross misconduct.

The wireless operator of the CALIFORNIAN did not wake up the Captain until 3:30 A.M. April 15. The TITANIC had been firing distress signals all night long. She had sunk during the night. If proper assistance had been taken they might have been able to be have been saved.

If the official distress signal had been sent the OLYMPIC at 6:16 P.M. and to the J.A. HUGES, also, the TITANIC they could have towed her to safety.

They had been firing distress signals through the night. The (TITANIC) had sunk during the nighttime hours. Had proper assistance been taken they might have been able to save all the people on board.

Some information had been sent earlier to the (OLYMPIC) around 6:16 P.M. Had this information been sent, also, to the J.A. HUGHES, the ship could have been towed to shore.

Since the sinking of the (TITANIC) it has been made mandatory that ships carrying over 100 passengers must have 2 search lights aboard.

The committee gave (Captain Rostron) of the (Carpathia) the highest medal awarded in trying to save the (TITANIC) and all the passengers and crew on board.