In the summer of 1912, one man on the Earth was despised as a
thousand-fold murderer. He was Stanley Lord, the Captain of the
freighter Californian. Two courts of inquiries found that his ship
had sat and watched the 'unsinkable' Titanic fire distress rockets
and finally watched her slip under waves, while the Californian's
Captain and sole wireless operator slept, and an impotent bridge
crew pondered that 'a ship is not going to fire rockets at sea for
nothing...it looked like a case of distress.'Failing to impress
their suspicions on Lord, the crew stood and watched the strange
rocket-firer disappear into the night...In accordance with the
basic dictates of maritime law, Lord and his crew should have
responded to the rockets. They didn't. And 1500 people died in the
frigid waters that night. Although Captain Lord was treated as a
pariah and forced to resign from his shipping company, he soon
found employment elsewhere and he prospered. After nearly 100
years, debate still ensues as to whether his ship and the Titanic
were in sight of each other, but attempts to re-open the case to
exonerate the crew of the sleepy tramp Californian in 1965, 1968
and 1990 simply resulted in the original findings of the courts
being largely upheld. Basic questions about the case remain. Why
did the Californian crew not give more impetus to the rockets? Were
they afraid of their Captain? Why did they not wake up the wireless
operator? Why was the crew not prosecuted for negligence? Why do so
many people believe that the Captain was a scapegoat in 1912? Why
is this one issue the most divisive aspect of the whole Titanic
story?And more importantly, could the Californian have saved any of
the victims, or would they have arrived in time simply to pluck a
few half-dead bodies from the water
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