The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters in history. However, few people know about the SS Californian, a nearby ship that failed to come to the Titanic's rescue.

The Californian stood only a few miles away from the sinking ship, yet the crew did nothing to help. The reasons behind this inaction have been the topic of much debate and speculation for over a century.

Did they see the Titanic's distress signals? Were they asleep? Was there a conspiracy to let the Titanic sink? In this video, we will explore the events that led up to the disaster and try to unravel the mystery behind the SS Californian's inaction that fateful night.

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What really happened on the Californian that night, will forever be lost to time. What we know today, has been pieced together from testimony, given by Californian's captain and officers during the Inquires.

So let's take a look at The Californians Timeline, on April 15th, 1912.

The Californian radioed the Titanic at approximately nineteen hundred hours to warn of an ice field - of which the Californian nearly collided with herself.

Captain Stanley Lord, ordered the Californian to stop for the night, concluding it was too dangerous to proceed. As he was going off duty, he spotted the Titanic's lights on the horizon about 5 miles away.

Californian radioed Titanic again, warning that they had stopped, and were surrounded by ice. The radio signal was so strong, it interrupted Titanic's regular communication, and its reply from the Titanic's wireless room was "Shut Up. Shut Up. I am Busy,"

Californian shut down its wireless at 11:30pm, as history would have it Titanic struck the iceberg around ten minutes later.

Californian was sited from Titanic's bridge, 25 minutes later, and distress rockets were fired to get her attention.

Officers on board Californian spotted several rockets, and called down to Captain Lord, who had since gone to bed. Lord suggested the Californian contact the vessel, by morse lamp. No effort was ever made, to wake the wireless operator.

He suggested that the rockets were company signals of some kind. Testimony given during the British Inquiry suggests, mix ideas about the rockets they saw.

Some of Californian's officers believed, there was a more serious nature behind the rockets.

At two AM, Titanic appeared to "be leaving the area," after firing a total of eight white rockets. This was reported to Captain Lord, who did nothing.

Titanic sank at Two Twenty AM. At three AM, officers of the Californian, sited rockets coming from the south. These were from RMS Carpathia, who had travelled all night towards Titanic.

At 4:16am a shift change resulted in Californian's wireless operator, to inquire about why a ship had fired rockets earlier.

At 5:30 am, Captain Lord, now awake, ordered the Californian to Titanic's position.

But through a twisted, longer route instead of directly there.
Californian eventually arrived alongside the RMS Carpathia, who just finished collecting all survivors.

After the Carpathia departed for New York, Californian stay behind to continue the search, but only found wreckage.

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