I'll give an overview of my research conducted on both ships.

At 10:21pm, on April 14th, 1912 the Californian was a Leyland Line vessel heading for Boston. She stopped at this time due to a large ice field ahead of her path. Lord later went to see Cyril Evans, the ships wireless operator. Lord asked what ships were near by? Evans told him "only Titanic." Lord instructed him to warn the Titanic that they were surrounded by ice for the night.

At 10:55pm, Evans relied the message "Held up for the night, surrounded by ice." Before finishing, Jack Phillips on the Titanic cut him off saying "Shut up, shut up, I'm busy. I'm talking with Cape Race." Evans complies and listens in until 11:30pm, before retiring for the night. 10 minutes later the Titanic would crash into an iceberg.

Shortly, after 11pm, Captain Lord and Third Officer Charles Groves saw a vessel come into view from the Southeast. Lord thought her to be a tramp steamer(similar to the Californian) about 5 miles away, Groves thought her to be a passenger liner due to the amount of lights.

At 11:40pm on the Californian, Charles Groves observed the mystery ship stop. He tried to use the Morse lamp to contact her from 11:50pm to 12:10am, but received no response.

At 12:10am, Groves was relived by Second Officer Herbert Stone. Groves pointed out the mystery ship and told him he got no response from her. Groves then embarked to the wireless room. Seeing as Evans was asleep, he turned on the set, because he liked to fiddle around with it. He heard nothing, so he shut off the set and went below.

At 12:45am, Stone walking up and down the deck enjoying the clear night saw a flash in the sky. He assumed it was a shooting star. However, when he witness another 5-10 minutes later, he realized they were rockets. Stone would go on to see 5 white rockets before being joined by Apprentice Officer James Gibson.

At 1:10am, Stone called down to Lord in the chartroom. That he had seen 3/4 white rockets fired from the ship. (Later Lord would saw he only knew of 1 rocket fired). Lord asked Stone if they were company rockets? Stone replied that he "didn't know." Lord advised him to call her on the Morse lamp and find out her name. Stone did so, yet received no reply again.

After this point, Gibson was now joining Stone in the attempt to contact the vessel. Gibson saw 3 rockets himself, while looking in his binoculars he saw them throwing stars before they disappeared. Stone made a comment "Take a look at her now Gibson, she looks queer now." Gibson replied "She appears to have to big end out of the water." At 1:45am, the 8th and final rocket was sent from Titanic.

Around 2am, Stone told Gibson to go down to the chartroom and tell Captain Lord "That the mystery ship appears to be altering her bearing to the Southwest, and fired 8 white rockets total." Although, Captain Lord claims to have vaguely remembered this and just recalling Gibson close his door.

Upon arriving back on the bridge, it was roughly 2:05am. Stone was observing her still through his binoculars said "I can just make out her mast light....Oh she disappeared."

At 3:30am, Stone and Gibson would see the rockets fired by the Carpathia. These were not reported to Captain Lord.

Around 5am, Chief Officer George Stewart, woke Cyril Evans to inquire about the firing of the rockets during the night. They soon found out the Titanic had sunk. At 5:15am they were underway and headed for her last know position.

At 8:30am, they arrived next to the Carpathia.