FREIGHTER CREW BLAMED FOR NOT AIDING TITANIC

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 1, 1993                   TAG: 9304010044
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LONDON                                LENGTH: Short
FREIGHTER CREW BLAMED FOR NOT AIDING TITANIC
A nearby freighter failed to go to the rescue of the sinking Titanic partly because of an officer's neurotic fear of his domineering and overcautious captain, according to a book published Wednesday.
An inquiry concluded that the British cargo steamer Californian might have saved all of the victims and faulted Capt. Stanley Lord for not responding to the Titanic's signal rockets. Lord's family and supporters have argued he was made a scapegoat for the liner's owner not having provided enough lifeboats.
"The Ship That Stood Still" contends the Californian's second officer, Herbert Stone, realized the rockets were distress signals. But Stone, who had fled a domineering father at age 16, was too afraid of the overbearing and aloof Lord to go below to insist that action be taken, the book says.
More than 1,500 men, women and children drowned a few miles away the night of April 14-15, 1912. The Titanic, then the world's largest and most luxurious liner, had been sliced open by an iceberg.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB