Lifeboat difference: You only need capacity on the California for a little over 1000 people, whereas the rest could be adequately held by the Titanic's 20 lifeboats. Hope it helped! And I haven't worked in the field for a few years now, so listen to others who might've had the wherewithall to actually look things up before me. Even it she crammed herself with passengers, the death toll would still have been necessarily remarkable. I can't recall exactly how many Lifeboats the Californian had, but it would not have had many even the Titanic wasn't required to have more than 20, and the Californian only had a crew and passenger capacity of ~102. It could almost certainly not have arrived in time to prevent as many passengers from being in the water as there already was.įurthermore, if we grant that the Californian could have arrived, its capacity to help would've been severely limited. It was certainly "close", but it would have had to pick its way through dozens of icebergs that it had already narrowly avoided. Unfortunately, the Californian was unlikely to have been in a position to help, even if it had received the Titanic's distress calls in a timely manner.
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