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Who was Captain Stanley Lord?
Who was Captain Stanley Lord?
Captain Stanley Lord was the captain of a nearby ship that saw the Titanic's help flares yet didn't respond.
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Summary by Aidan Cantrell
Captain Stanley Lord and his crew
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Text: “A Titanic Controversy – Was Stanley Lord to Blame For The Entire Titanic Disaster?” Titanic Universe RSS, www.titanicuniverse.com/a-titanic-controversy-stanley-lord/3075.
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Titanic researches have found information that Captain Stanley Lord is to blame for the amounts of death caused on the titanic. The night when the titanic sank, Lord's ship had a front row seat to the tragic incidents that occurred. When the titanic shot off distress rockets, Lord was notified by his crew, but instead of doing something, he said to let them go. The titanic's distress rockets were shot at midnight, and Lord decided to move towards the Titanic at around 6:00 in the morning.
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“The fact is that the Californian was the closest ship to the Titanic, and there was only an ice field between them. Even if Evans had not been awake to be monitoring the radio, when the Titanic started firing distress rockets, then the men on the deck of the Californian told Lord about rockets, the actions of Lord were incorrect” (Paragraph 2).
By Jim Clark from BBC News
Researcher Penelope Niessen
Captain Stanley Lord on his ship, the SS Californian
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Text: Clarke, Jim. “Titanic Disaster: How History Has Judged Bolton's Sea Captains.” BBC News, BBC, 11 Apr. 2012,
Image: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/images/special/LordWalk_500.jpg
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Captain Stanley Lord and his ship were 19 miles away from the Titanic when it struck the iceberg. He didn’t even bother sending them a radio message. In fact, he didn’t even think to wake the radio operator. Many blame him for the sinking of the Titanic. If he had at least done what the Carpathia did he wouldn’t be known as the villain. The Carpathia raced over as fast as she could. Unfortunately, she didn’t get there on time. Many lives were lost.
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“Lord, unlike Captain Smith on the Titanic, had halted his Boston-bound ship for the night because he was caught in the ice field” (Paragraph 1).
“Lord was woken - twice - but said the flares were probably "company rockets" - signals between ships from the same line./He took no action. His wireless office had shut down for the night and couldn't receive the Titanic's SOS messages./It was only when the office re-opened that morning that the signals were picked up./By the time the Californian reached the scene, the Titanic had sunk and there were just bodies floating in the water” (Paragraph 1).
Source 3: Titanic disaster and the mystery of Captain Lord and the Californian
Source 3: Titanic disaster and the mystery of Captain Lord and the Californian
By James Bradley
Researcher Owen Taylor
Captain Stanley Lord standing
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Text: Bradley, James Titanic Disaster And The mystery of Captain Lord and the Californian, March 26 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/titanic-disaster-and-the-mystery-of-captain-lord-and-the-californian/news-story/3e4e61518445ea24be0c2c0b033ee5df March 26 2016
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Captain Stanley Lord/the captain of the S.S. Californian can be blamed for the loss of several lives during the sinking of the Titanic. Seeing as he had his radio off the night of the sinking. If he had turned it one could of heard the help signals and saved at least most of the people. He was also very ignorant because he was informed that someone had seen distress signals or flares and he didn’t do anything about it.
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“Shortly after midnight the Californian’s second officer, Herbert Stone, sighted the first of several distress rockets and went below to inform Lord. Despite knowing the Titanic was in the area, Lord did not come to the bridge or direct Stone to render assistance” (paragraph 4)
Source 4: Report Into the Loss of the SS Titanic: a Centennial Reappraisal
Source 4: Report Into the Loss of the SS Titanic: a Centennial Reappraisal
By Samuel Halpern
Researcher Owen Taylor
Note: Only 30 pages of this book are about Captain Lord and the SS Californian.
Note: Only 30 pages of this book are about Captain Lord and the SS Californian.
The Titanic launching white rockets into the sky
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Text: Halpern, Samuel/ Akers-Jordan, Cathy/ Behe, George/ Beveridge, Bruce/ Chirnside, Mark. Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic: a Centennial Reappraisal. Trafalgar Square, 2012.
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Captain Stanley Lord may not have taken proper actions to save the Titanic. He told his crew to try to signal them with Morse Code. However, the lamps they were using did not go far enough to reach Titanic. He could have tried to wake up the radio operator to have him signal the Titanic, but no one did that.
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"It never occurred to anyone after seeing these rockets to wake up Cyril Evans [the radio operator] and try to contact the vessel by wireless" (Samuel Halpern p186).
A photograph of Captain Stanley Lord dressed in his finest clothes.
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Citation
Text: Encyclopedia Titanica. “Stanley Lord : Captain of SS Californian.” Encyclopedia Titanica, Encyclopedia Titanica, 13 Sept. 2017, www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biography/stanley-lord.html.
Image: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/files/2013/201301/admin/images/captain-lord.jpg
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While Captain Stanley Lords ship the SS Californian stopped for the night, as precaution for other ships he told his wireless radio operator to relay an ice warning to all nearby vessels. Meanwhile he calculated his ships position, what he calculated was wrong though, and instead of being 13 miles away from the titanic as shown by his previous calculations, his ship was really only five miles away from where the titanic sank.
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"After both the American and British official inquiries concluded that the Californian(which had reported herself as stopped) was likely the Mystery Ship seen to approach within five miles of the sinking Titanic and then recede, it was reluctantly decided by the Leyland line that Captain Lord would have to be asked to resign his commission" (Paragraph 13).
"An Officer of the Watch and an apprentice saw low-lying rockets to the SSE of the Californian during the night of April 14/15, when Captain Lord had retired after a 17-hour day. If the Titanic had been in her SOS position, these men ought to have seen their distant flashes to the SSW" (Paragraph 10).
"His vessel came to rest at the edge of an impenetrable ice field that seems to have stretched at least 30 miles north to south, and which other shipping had warned about for days. As it was Lords first experience of field ice, he elected to maintain minimum steam and wait for daylight" (Paragraph 7).
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