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10-10-2008, 04:27 PM
The tragedy of the RMS Titanic—loss of life numbering 1,500 passengers the night of April 14th, 1912—hardly compares to the greater tragedy that all 2,205 passengers of the Titanic might have been rescued.
Little has been said of the circumstance of the Californian, a passenger ship within sight, but ten miles away when the Titanic struck an iceberg. The Californian failed to acknowledge the distress flares of the Titanic, or turn on its own wireless. The passenger ship Carpathia, fifty-eight miles southeast of the stricken Titanic, responded to the distress call and rescued seven-hundred and five survivors adrift in lifeboats. The other fifteen-hundred passengers, having no lifeboats available to them, succumbed to the cold sea.
Read more here http://www.marconiusa.org/history/titanic.htm
Little has been said of the circumstance of the Californian, a passenger ship within sight, but ten miles away when the Titanic struck an iceberg. The Californian failed to acknowledge the distress flares of the Titanic, or turn on its own wireless. The passenger ship Carpathia, fifty-eight miles southeast of the stricken Titanic, responded to the distress call and rescued seven-hundred and five survivors adrift in lifeboats. The other fifteen-hundred passengers, having no lifeboats available to them, succumbed to the cold sea.
Read more here http://www.marconiusa.org/history/titanic.htm