One important thing to keep in mind is that wireless (believe it or not) was used mainly as an entertainment device aboard passenger ships with passengers being able to send and receive greetings while at sea. As a result, it was not used as an emergency device until that fateful night. The wireless operator aboard the Californian had gone to sleep by the time that the Titanic began sending emergency calls and it was a blessing that the Carpathia’s was still up at that time to hear them and tell Captain Rostrom about the situation.
Had the Californian’s been awake to hear the signals, that ship likely would have arrived even before the Titanic went down and saved most if not all lives lost that tragic night and Captain Stanley Lord would have been the real hero. Wireless service thus was required to be on 24/7 aboard all ships going forward from that event.
It was the Olympic that actually sank in 1912. Tons of vids and articles about the insurance angle.
No, it won’t, unless it created the atmospheric effects which prevented the lookouts from seeing the iceberg until it was too late...
...and influenced the engineering of its bulkheads & rudder...
...and weakened its hull due to a coal bunker fire...
Cavalierly speeding through pack ice without enough lifeboats had more to do with it, I think.
To the best of my knowledge, the only navigation equipment the Titanic had was a sextant.
Auroras don’t interfere with them.
Gee, thought it was an Iceberg.
Good grief, the ship hit an iceberg and sunk. it’s over already! TWA 800 anybody?
Titanic ping.
The ship to shore communications used "ditty bop" signals on HF radio. If you knew anything about that you would know that the Ionosphere changes at night and makes the already sketchy radio communications a crap shoot. They ran into an iceberg and back then there was no radar or any device that could prevent that happening.
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Passengers and crew.