Ss Californian facts
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RMS Titanic" fired 8 emergency flares before sinking. A ship in the area, the "SS Californian", saw the flares and that the ship appeared uneven in the water. The crew told the captain, who did not believe the rockets were fired in distress. All of Titanic's passengers could have been rescued.
how far was the ss californian from titanic?
The SS Californian was within 15 miles of HMS Titanic the night Titanic sank. The wireless operator for SS Californian sent a message to Titanic that it was stopped and surrounded by ice, then turned off his wireless equipment and went to bed. Titanic collided with the iceberg 10 minutes later.
What happened to the captain of the ss californian?
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what happened to the ss californian?
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Many ships have sunk in the Bay of Biscay including the USS Californian in 1918, the SS Afrique in 1920, the U-667 in 1944 and the Soviet sub K-8 in 1970.
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There was a ship only 20 miles from the Titanic as it sank. The SS Californian failed to respond immediately to the sinking and her captain has been villainized (some say unfairly) ever since. She later sank less than 200 miles from the wreck of Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, during WWI.
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The SS Californian, the night that the Titanic sunk had contacted them via Marconi telegraph, saying that they were near an ice pack and they were going to rest for the night, 10 minutes later the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
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SS Californian (the ship that ignored the Titanic's distress rockets) was sunk herself, by a German U-Boat in 1914. It sunk less than 200 miles from where the Titanic sister ship (Brittanic) would also be sunk.
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The SS Californian actually does appear in the final cut of James Cameron's Titanic.
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On the night of the sinking of the Titanic, the iceberg warning from the SS Californian was responded to with a request to 'Shut Up' from a Canadian station operator
