Indeed, a great burden for the remainder of his life, and that of the crew.

Capt.Lord should have made out a statement of why he didn't come to Titanics aid.

He must have certainly had a reason for not doing so. There is no reason for him to take such a burden into his grave. The white flares were white mainly to symbolise the company's name which is white star line. Red is the standard color for a flare gun used to signal for help. When the Titanic was sinking, white flare guns were shot off from the ship. The californian and other ships many miles away saw the white flares, but did not interpret the white flares as warning messages.

Yeah for those reasons. Titanic was too far away to be distingueshed as sinking, and the white flares, well there was nothing, sinister about them. So knowone saw the danger.

exactly my point, have white star line ever said anything about the white flares being used

The wirless operator on the californain wired the titanic that they had stopped for the night, they were surronded by ice. Jack Phillips the wireless operator on the titaic was in the middle of cape race, a kind of gossip ring in the shipping business. The californian was 19 miles away so when their operator came through is nearly blasted phillips ears. he replyed, "shut up, shut up, i'm in the middle of cape race." So the operator on the californian shut of his radio and went to bed. Why didn't phillps take that message to captian smith? If he had i believe smith would have stopped for the night. the man had a spottless record, he never would have risked the lives of so many had he have known.

maybe phillips was busy or he wasn't bothered about taking it to smith

cape race was like a gossip ring. He was too busy gossiping and sending out passanger messages.

rightly so, he should have done his job