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Message: [QUOTE="Jim Currie, post: 384766, member: 144215"] This question should be re titled " [b][size=5]"After the collision, why Titanic did not sail toward the ship seen on her port bow?"[/size][/b] [i] [/i]Let's get this right and stop perpetuating a myth. After[i] Titanic[/i] came to a complete halt and never moved again, the ship seen from her bridge appeared almost right ahead and sailed toward her. At that time [i]Californian[/i] was stopped. It follows that the ship showing the lights could not have been [i]Californian. [/i] Right then! When Captain Smith arrived on his bridge, he did not know if his ship had sustained damage. However he knew there was a possibility that it had done so. He therefore did what every experienced captain would have done in such circumstances...ensured that his ship came to a complete standstill and then sent his Carpenter to sound all compartments in the areas where damage may have been sustained. He would not resume passage until he knew it was safe to do so. That was and still is standard practice by prudent captains. For him to have started up his engines and proceed without knowing the full situation would have been totally stupid. We have evidence that he ordered an ahead movement after impact. However that does not mean that the ship actually moved ahead. That order was given 4.5 minutes after impact and 2 minutes after that, [i]Titanic's [/i]engines fell silent for ever. That was a total of about 6.5 minutes after impact and at least 3.5 minutes before the Carpenter told Captain Smith that the ship was taking on a lot of water. [/QUOTE]

Verification: In which year did the Titanic sail?