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As a descendant of the captain, It saddens me that he lived the the rest of his life trying to be proven innocent, as he sent out an S.O.S. to the S.S. Titanic, and they did not listen to the S.O.S. As I look in the mirror I see his lines permanently engraved on my face, and as I have done more research on the history of the S.S. Californian I can come to the conclusion that he is innocent, as he and his ship were icelocked and were way too far for him to try and rescue the victims of the incident, and like I said the S.O.S. sent to the Titanic was disregarded. I hope others will see this, and have a changed mindset of this incident that forever hurt my grandfather until his unfortunate demise. - Lacey Lord
The fact they're in a ice field and stopped because of how dangerous it is. A large ship in the distance stops and light flashes in sequence with morse code calling distress but California ignores it, Rockets fire, and they're still ignored without even as to wake up the communications, Then "oh wow! that looks queer a side of the ship is out of the water" But still goes ignored. 1500 people died because of 1 asshole being to stupid, ignorant and lazy to even investigate a highly probable distress. The California engines may have been stopped but the fires were likely still burning and boilers still had steam. Steam engines dont just have an off switch and if all steam was bleed out and fires out it would have taken hours the next day to get back underway. To steam up enough would have only taken maybe half hour 45 mins and then travel the approximate 10 k to the aid of Titanic maybe half hour to an hour. They might not have made it but better to have tried and failed then just ignore a CLEAR sign of distress. I hope nobody had any respect for the captain and crew of the California after that night.
I'm not sure why the CPT would not have had his wireless operator woken up to at least check if another ship was calling out. I'm pretty sure the Californian Captain understood that capability of that technology he had available.
as an ocean liner fan who got to travel 1st class on REAL ones as a wee lad I have 2 things to say ... 1. these "ships" (LOL) just hurt my eyes, and 2. sorry for you all who will never experience travel on a real ship; I'll never forget it
What is not mentioned here, is that ocean liners were not the only ships requiring stokers. So did all of the freight and packet steamers around the world that had taken over from the sailing vessels (not to forget utility vessels such as tugs). They too, would eventually either be pensioned off or converted to oil-firing, but the employment opportunities for ocean-going stokers did not end with the conversion of the liners. It did end, though... that much can be acknowledged.
Young Norwegian actor, (18 years old) Arne Fahlstrøm, traveled at second class. He was on his way to NY, and further education. His body was never found. no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Fahlstr%C3%B8m
Between ages 6 - 9 I traveled on both Queens and SS US, and the Italian Line's Michelangelo ... it's burned in my brain like it was yesterday, especially the SS US
You might want to do a video of the last Canadian Pacific luxury liner SS Keewatin. She was part of the Canadian Pacific Great Lakes Fleet and served on the upper Great Lakes for 60 seasons. She is currently moored permanently in Kingston Ont.
True. I view that primarily as an easter egg for those in the know. If it was even casually alluded to in the script or something, it would be a different story. But technically you're right.
What does the Wright brothers being from Ohio and living in Ohio have anything to do with the first successful flight? That’s like if I’m from New York and I was training there for the Boston marathon, does that mean I ran the marathon in New York?
I always wondered why a lifeboat of strong men didn't row to the Californian. I have heard 3 lifeboats did try to head in Californians direction but she sailed off?
Yes, they did try to toward the Californian, but the Californian picked up the message that the Titanic had sank and had been calling for help so she started moving off in attempt to reach her location, but went in the wrong direction for the first 2 to 3 hours so those lifeboats were unable to get close enough in time to get her attention.
It sucks that a ship that went through so much met such a undignified end. It should be here right now, for the enjoyment of all, to prance around her graceful walls.
I mean ... They did tell the Californian to shut up 😭😭 (also they did show the Californian in the movie but only they're lights, wherein real life, you could see the entire ship according to a survivor)
They're not quite sister ships, but do have a lot of similarities. They are both quite nice looking ships in my opinion, but Ivernia had the edge partly because of her greater length and sleeker profile.
Who cares if the boat looked like it had queer people on it. That’s not a reason to not help the people. Just shows how much queer people have had to overcome and why we need to elect Joe Biden
@@ronaldschultenover8137 What do you mean watched it all happen? She was only a few miles closer to Titanic than Carpathia was when she picked up Titanic’s distress call.
As the Magic and the Wonder approach 30 years in service, I'm scared to death they will eventually be decommissioned and not replaced with ships that will match their cozy size and classic ocean liner vibe.
