The film was extraordinarily popular, and it does not refer to the Californian. And I think much of the reason for this is the James Cameron film ‘Titanic’. We know now that the ‘shipboard celebration’ thesis cannot be true, but this shows that even as an eight year old I was grappling with the mystery of ‘why didn’t the Californian go?’Īlthough ‘the Californian incident’ is very well known – and, indeed, very controversial – in Titanic circles, it is less well known in the general population. Rockets were fired every five minutes but the Calafornian though that it was some sort of ship board celebration.’ “The wireless operator was sending SOS calls to the Calafornian which was only ten miles away but its wireless was shut down over one hour ago. Later, when I was in Grade 4, I wrote a story entitled ‘Titanic’s Disaster’, which has an intriguing couple of sentences on its second page: I watched ‘A Night to Remember’ with my grandmother when I was about 4 or 5, and that film shows (a little inaccurately) the key aspects of the Californian’s role. I watched ‘A Night to Remember’ with my grandmother when I was about 4 o …more I first learned about the Californian incident when I was a very young child. David Dyer I first learned about the Californian incident when I was a very young child.
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