I’ll take a guess on what happens in the series...the ship gets hit by an iceberg, 1500 people died and Stanley Lord of the Californian becomes the most hated captain even before the Italian cruise ship line disaster.
There is an interesting book on Lord and the Californian.
Some of the premises:
1. The Californian was much further away from Titanic than estimated.
2. The Californian was on the west side of the ice pack and the Titanic came racing up from the east.
3. There were several other ships in the area including a seal poacher who moved away from the area, not wanting to be identified.
Lord was a long time very highly rated ships captain. He may have gotten a bad rap on this one.