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Message: [QUOTE="Jamie Bryant, post: 26214, member: 140408"] According to the crew on Mount Temple, they saw a small vessel, made from wood, with a black and white funnel. A few hours later the Carpathia, when at the scene of the accident at daybreak, reported seeing a similar ship, though it was now sailing away. A world wide search for this ship was launched, before and after the British enquiry, though in vain. But early in August 1912, Captain Lord received an astonishing letter from a certain W.H.Baker, who served briefly as an officer on the Mount Temple, but was now writing from his regular berth on another Canadian Pacific Liner, Empress of Britain: I came home in the Mount Temple from Halifax that voyage, having been taken out of the Empress at ten minutes notice to fill up a vacancy...The officers and others had told me what they had seen on the eventful night whwn the Titanic went down, and from what they said , they were from ten to fourteen miles from her when they saw her signals. I gather from what was told me that the captain seemed afraid to go through the ice, although it was not so very thick. They told me that they not only saw her deck lights, but several green lights between them and what they thought was the Titanic. There were two loud reports heard, which they said must have been the finale of the Titanic, this was sometime after sighting her. The Captain said at the Washington inquiry that he was forty nine miles away, though his officers had made it fourteen....I tell you these men were fearfully indignant that they were not called upon to give evidence at the time, for they were greatly incensed by the Captain's behaviour in the matter.The doctor had made all preperations and rooms were turned into hospitals, and the crew were standing by ready to help watching her lights and what they said were the green lights of flares coming from her lifeboats.These fellows must feel sorry for you , knowing that they could not, in face of this,have been the mystery ship" Adapted from Lord: Villain or Victim? Though a secondary source, it was howerver written just weeks after the sinking. Jamie Bryant [/QUOTE]

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