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- Twenty Lifeboats Titanic, the Inquiries, and the Remaking of Maritime Law · Liszt Think
On the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with lifeboats lowered half full.
- The Vessel of Confidence…. Ships altered course or reduced speed when they received warnings. The warnings came regularly. The Baltic, the Caronia, the Amerika, the Californian—all sent messages reporting ice at various positions. The wireless operators received them. They logged them. They passed some to the bridg…
- The Marconi Room (Liverpool and Seaward, 1900–April 1912)…one in Whitehall seemed to notice. This regulatory silence meant that ships like the RMS Carpathia, a Cunard liner built in 1903, or the SS Californian, a Leyland Line freighter launched in 1901, installed wireless voluntarily—as a commercial proposition, not a maritime requirement. Titanic…
- Icebergs and Unheeded Warnings…hapes against the dark water, for white shapes against the white horizon. The sun was setting. The light was fading. At 5: 30 p. m., the SS Californian, a small British freighter carrying cotton from London to New Orleans, sent a message. Her wireless operator, Cyril Furmstone Evans, transm…