My hyper-verbosity is slowing things down, but I have finished an interesting book about one of the lingering controversies surrounding the Titanic and am working on a review.
Specifically, a book about the Californian, a steamer which undisputedly saw eight white rockets fired by a steamship that night.
It is also undisputed that the Titanic fired eight white distress rockets that night, and saw a ship's lights not too far distant. Indeed, several of the lifeboats pulled toward said ship lights.
The Californian responded to the rockets via a Morse lamp, but did not otherwise act until the next morning, which her wireless radio operator turned back on his Marconi and learned that the Titanic had foundered.
More when I finish flinging too many words on the screen and then prune them back a bit.
Didn't the wireless telegraph operator on Titanic tell the wireless telegraph operator on Californian to "shut up" as the Californian's messages about icebergs were so loud that he was having trouble effectively communicating regular messages to the continental US, at which point he switched off the wireless and went to bed while the tragedy unfolded, or am I misremembering?
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