[Lonesome in Massachussets]

there were ships lights in view of the Titanic that did not respond to the distress calls of the sinking ship.

The Carpathia saw the lights of the Titanic and her flares, but did not take that as distress sign. The Carpathia had stopped her engines and remained a drift for the night, out of fear of the reports of icebergs. They assumed the distant still lights were the lights of another ship that had made the same decision. They did not have a wireless watch during the night while still. Their decision was neither callous nor necessarily reprehensible.

In the case of Ms. Sunderland, she seems to have taken truly irresponsible risks and had neither the maturity nor experience to weigh risks and costs she was assuming, and not incidently exposing others to, including potential rescuers.

[DJ MacWoW]

I remember hearing about the Carpathia too. And wasn’t there an unidentified ship that never came to help?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Minor correction. The Carpathia was the name of the closest ship to respond. It was hours away and almost burned out the engines getting to the Titanic. They were the heroes. The California was the ship that was closest but took no action.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Sorry. The ship was the SS Californian. Neither her or the Carpathia survived WW I as both were sunk by German U Boats.