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Californian, stopped in ice a few miles away, had shut down its wireless for the night after a single operator’s watch. Rockets from Titanic were seen and misread. Carpathia, under Captain Arthur Rostron, turned at full speed and took about 710 survivors from the boats after dawn on 15 April.
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Sinking of the Titanic · paras 2
Watertight bulkheads rose only as high as E Deck. Naval architect Edward Wilding later told the British inquiry that a long side-grazing tear along plate seams could flood several compartments. The design assumed a head-on or limited-compartment breach, not a running wound along the starboard side. On 14 April the ship received multiple ice warnings, including from SS Californian and SS Mesaba. Captain Edward J.
Sinking of the Titanic · paras 2
Californian, stopped in ice a few miles away, had shut down its wireless for the night after a single operator’s watch. Rockets from Titanic were seen and misread. Carpathia, under Captain Arthur Rostron, turned at full speed and took about 710 survivors from the boats after dawn on 15 April.
Sinking of the Titanic · paras 1
Survival rates tracked class and location more than myth. First-class women and children left in higher proportions than steerage families whose corridors and language barriers delayed access to the boat deck. The phrase “women and children first” describes a contested practice on the night, not a statute.
Sinking of the Titanic · paras 2
Passenger and crew lists, Marconi traffic and the two inquiry transcripts remain the core public record. Later wreck photography confirmed a break between the third and fourth funnels as the hull sank, a fact the 1912 courts could only infer from testimony. The United States Radio Act of 1912 required ships to keep a continuous wireless watch.
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Survival rates tracked class and location more than myth. First-class women and children left in higher proportions than steerage families whose corridors and language barriers delayed access to the boat deck. The phrase “women and children first” describes a contested practice on the night, not a statute.
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Passenger and crew lists, Marconi traffic and the two inquiry transcripts remain the core public record. Later wreck photography confirmed a break between the third and fourth funnels as the hull sank, a fact the 1912 courts could only infer from testimony. The United States Radio Act of 1912 required ships to keep a continuous wireless watch.
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