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Message: [QUOTE="Martin Cooper, post: 85720, member: 139182"] Q.M. George Rowe was at the docking bridge aft when the ship struck the berg (23.40), he said he remained there until 00.25, then took detonators to the 4th officer (Boxhall). He states that he helped fire the rockets until Smith told him to take charge of a lifeboat (collapsible C) at around 01.25. Could Rowe have been unaware that Titanic had turned towards the south to try to avoid the berg, and that by her manouvering after she had struck the berg, he now assumed that her head was now pointing towards the north and not towards the west? At the U.S. enquiry Rowe stated that the fore well deck was awash when they got to the water in Collapsible C. He also states that he saw a light and pulled towards it. He was asked by Senator Burton what he concluded the light was, Rowe replied that he thought it was a sailing ship. Sen Burton: Do you think there was a sailing boat there? Rowe:Yes Sir. Sen Burton: And was she going away from you? Rowe: Toward daylight the wind sprung up and she sort of hauled off from us. Sen Burton: Did you see her? Rowe: No Sir. Sen Burton: Did you see any side lights? Rowe: No Sir, I think there was a ship there. Indeed I am sure of it, and that she was a sailer. Sen Burton: And the light you saw was a white light? Rowe: Yes Sir. Sen Burton: What did you judge it to be, a stern light? Rowe: I judged it to be a stern light, yes sir. Sen Burton: When did you first see her? Rowe: When I was on the bridge firing rockets. I saw it myself, and I worked the morse lamp at the PORT side of the ship to draw her attention. Q.M. Rowe thought he was looking at a sailing ship, he saw no side lights, and also thought that the white light was a stern light. Therefor the 'ship' he was seeing could not have been Californian, because she was turned ENE at 22.21, and had swung around toward the east, so how could the Californian have shown her stern light towards the Titanic? The Californian was signalling by morse lamp to a ship that had stopped nearby (4 or 5 miles). The Titanic was signalling my morse lamp to a nearby ship that had approached her (4 or 5 miles). IF, and it is a very, very big IF, Titanic and Californian were only 4 or 5 miles apart, how come they never saw each others morse lamps signalling to each other? At 4 or 5 miles apart they should have been almost blinding each other with the morse lamps, yet they got no replies from the ships that they were morsing. [/QUOTE]

Verification: In which year did the Titanic sail?