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7/12/2025, 6:19:10 PM
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>2000 people on deck cold in blankets is better than 2000 people dead in the water
It wasn't just a matter of deck space, Californian was only built to accommodate 35 passengers. That means that everything from bathrooms to the galley would have been completely overwhelmed. They definitely wouldn't have enough blankets to go around so you would have had people dying of exposure on the deck. Moreover the ship was carrying a full load of cotton at the time so sheltering people in the cargo hold wouldn't have been an option (good luck jettisoning any of it with hundreds of struggling people on the deck and no dockside crane). Moreover, assuming the average weight of a passenger on the Titanic was around 150lbs, that means that accommodating all 2000 passengers would have made the ship 15 tons heavier. Now this normally wouldn't be that much of an issue except that those 15 tons are not in the cargo hold, but all over the ship.
>They saw the flares and could see the lights.
Yes but they would have required Lord and the crew to put two and two together and figure out that ship in the distance was Titanic, especially since the rockets were not being fired at the appropriate intervals (once every 60 seconds was the standard at the time, Titanic was firing them every 6 minutes to preserve rockets).
Now could they have figured it out? They almost certainly would have, but that could easily have taken another 10-20 minutes in a situation where seconds counted.
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>2000 people on deck cold in blankets is better than 2000 people dead in the water
It wasn't just a matter of deck space, Californian was only built to accommodate 35 passengers. That means that everything from bathrooms to the galley would have been completely overwhelmed. They definitely wouldn't have enough blankets to go around so you would have had people dying of exposure on the deck. Moreover the ship was carrying a full load of cotton at the time so sheltering people in the cargo hold wouldn't have been an option (good luck jettisoning any of it with hundreds of struggling people on the deck and no dockside crane). Moreover, assuming the average weight of a passenger on the Titanic was around 150lbs, that means that accommodating all 2000 passengers would have made the ship 15 tons heavier. Now this normally wouldn't be that much of an issue except that those 15 tons are not in the cargo hold, but all over the ship.
>They saw the flares and could see the lights.
Yes but they would have required Lord and the crew to put two and two together and figure out that ship in the distance was Titanic, especially since the rockets were not being fired at the appropriate intervals (once every 60 seconds was the standard at the time, Titanic was firing them every 6 minutes to preserve rockets).
Now could they have figured it out? They almost certainly would have, but that could easily have taken another 10-20 minutes in a situation where seconds counted.
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