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Show An Answer To The Titanic Mystery? Sixty-six years ago the newest and finest passenger liner on the North Atlantic, on her maiden voyage and thought to be unsinkable, struck an iceberg late at night in mid-ocean. The White Star line's Titanic went down in two hours and 1,500 people were drowned. THAT was perhaps the most dramatic news story (other than wars) of the century. cen-tury. The tragedy is still very much in the public eyein both books and films, partly because some believe that the loss of this ship and so much British-American society almost al-most ended a way of life. Certainly world war I, which followed two years thereafter, ended that era's way of life for all time. A FEW years ago in England and in Norway questions ques-tions were seriously raised about the long-accepted version ver-sion of the tragedy. It will be recalled that the Californian was widely blamed for not having rescued res-cued the drowned. It lay within sight, so it was said, and failed to answer emergency emer-gency rocket signals-its captain cap-tain being asleep and the watch not realizing what the signals meant. YET THE chief officer of a Norwegian ship that was in sight of the Titanic thai night, a ship that was engaged in illegal seal hunting, recently said, after the death of the captain, that it was this ship which passengers on the Titanic Ti-tanic saw that fateful night. The Samson stole away, not wanting to be detected. And so perhaps the Californian, its captain and its crew, have been wrongly blamed all these years. |