The Californian
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wwkentucky — 16 years ago(March 21, 2010 02:43 PM)
Some who enjoy the benefit of hindsight will claim that Capt. Lord was negligent.
Let's use that same hindsight to answer another question: On whose vessel would you rather have been travelling that night Smith's or Lord's? -
wwkentucky — 16 years ago(March 22, 2010 01:49 PM)
My meaning is that while Capt. Lord is often labelled "incompetent" (on this board and elsewhere) by people with the benefit of hindsight, he proved on the night of April 14, 1912, to be anything but.
He stopped his ship when he encountered ice flows and sent wireless messages to approaching ships warning them of the danger. All of Capt. Lord's crew and passengers reached their destination safely. To me, this does not equal incompetence, but the exact opposite.
He misinterpreted the rockets. That is all. Using the exact same hindsight used by the anti-Lord folks, I would much rather have sailed with Lord than Smith. -
karl-lambley — 15 years ago(May 22, 2010 10:10 AM)
I don't think the rockets were "miss-interpreted", emergency rockets or flares should be sent up at one minute intervals.
The rockets from the Titanic were sent up in a wily-nily fashion over the space of an hour or so, more like a small informal fireworks party than a request for help.
Also the Titanic carried 36 rockets, why did they only send 8 up, and those wrongly?
Perhaps if the chaps with the matches had done THEIR jobs properly Lord may have done his?
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paul-393 — 15 years ago(June 02, 2010 09:11 AM)
This is wrong. The regulations, adopted by the UK, the US, Canada and dozens of other seafaring nation called for rockets of any colour or description fired one at a time, at intervals. There is no mention anywhere of the interval between rockets. If QM Rowe is right, the interval was about 5 minutes. The men on the Titanic did their jobs right. Lord, and his men on the Californian, didn't.