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Message: [QUOTE="Jim Currie, post: 376630, member: 144215"] [COLOR="#0000FF"]"Smith received and acknowledged a message from Baltic that ice lay almost directly in their path in Lat 41Â° 51'N, 49Â° 52'W".[/COLOR] Not exactly Sam. He had received a message from [I]Caronia [/I]four hours earlier specifically warning of ice in 42 North. However the position of that ice was 2 days old. The message from[I] Baltic[/I] was not a general ice warning but was a message which made reference to ice in its text. Smith would not act on that second hand bit of information; particularly when four hours earlier he had had an earlier warning from [I]Caronia [/I]of ice to the northward of that position. I suggest his thought processes were something like: 1: By now,the ice in [I]Caronia' [/I]report will be farther north and east of where it was reported and therefore farther north and east of our intended track. 2: The Athenia's ice mentioned in [I]Baltic's [/I]message is significant. There might be the odd growler and loose ice to the southward. Will inform the bridge to keep a sharp lookout after dark. In any case, (As you say) we always get plenty of warning due to the interaction of sea and swell against ice. If it's there, we'll see it in plenty of time. [COLOR="#0000FF"]"He took a known risk and lost"[/COLOR] I would prefer to say that if he considered risk at all, it was a calculated one based on his experience of ice movements and that previous ice warning from [I]Caronia.[/I] Lord in [I]Californian [/I] thought along the same lines as Smith. At the US Inquiry he said: [I]"It was just a matter of courtesy.{Telling [I]Titanic [/I]that [I]Californian [/I]had been stopped by ice) I thought he [Smith in [I]Titanic[/I]]would be a long way from where we were. I did not think he was anywhere near the ice. By rights, he ought to have been 18 or 19 miles to the southward of where I was. [B][I]I never thought the ice was stretching that far down.[/I][/B][/I][B][/B] Lord had already passed three icebergs in the vicinity of 42 North that afternoon therefore he knew for certain there was still ice about so he took extra precautions. The sighting of these three bergs confirmed the warning of ice [I]he[/I] received from the[I] Caronia,[/I] You will remember that at Noon that day, April 14, despite the fact that he was heading for Boston, Lord set his course a degree to the southward of due west. The [I]Caronia [/I] warning was for the position of ice on April 12. Lord would expect that ice to move north and east between then and April 14 but Lord did not take chances. You will also remember the grilling that Boxhall had about the position of the ice. He too confirmed Lord's thought process and the concentration by Smith et al on the report made by[I] Coronia.[/I] Jim C. [/QUOTE]

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