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Message: [QUOTE="Dave Gittins, post: 26225, member: 139025"] Two points. Captain Lord was never on the stationary training ship [i]Conway[/i]. More to the point, Captain Moore presented a perfectly coherent account of his rescue mission. His starting point is on his course to Cape Sable. We know he reached the vicinity of the CQD position, because he later saw [i]Californian[/i] and [i]Carpathia[/i]. The passage "I gathered the Captain said at the Inquiry at Washington, that he was forty nine miles away — but the officers state that he was not more than 14 miles off." is blatantly silly, unless we assume that Captain Moore was a lying incompetent. Here's a passage from a certain book. "Another attack was made on 6 August 1912, when one W H Baker wrote to Captain Lord. Baker claimed to have served on Mount Temple during her return voyage from Halifax. According to him, Mount Temple's officers told him that their ship had not been 49 miles from Titanic, as claimed by Captain Moore, but only 14 miles. From this position, they had seen '...deck lights and several green lights between them and what they thought was the Titanic.' By some strange logic, this tale was supposed to prove that Californian was not the infamous 'mystery ship' seen from Titanic. By August 1912, the transcripts of both inquiries were published, and Boxhall's use of green lights was public knowledge. However, there is no evidence that he fired them before Titanic sank. This alone makes Baker's letter suspect. Moreover, as can be seen from the chart, there is no evidence of Mount Temple coming within range of Boxhall's flares before he ceased to fire them when Carpathia reached him. The account is finally demolished by the discovery of Titanic's wreck. To pass within 14 miles of it, Captain Moore would have had to be wildly off his course for Cape Sable. His starting point of 41Â° 25'N, 51Â° 14'W is on his correct course to Cape Sable from his turning point at 41Â° 15'N, 50Â°W. Baker's claim requires him to have been about 75Â° off course! Unless we are to decide that Captain Moore was both a liar and a blundering incompetent, Baker's letter may join Quiztrau's affidavit in the trash can of history." [/QUOTE]

Verification: In which year did the Titanic sail?