AID WAS NEAR AT HAND
STEAMER ONLY TWENTY MILES AWAY. WIRELESS APPARATUS NOT WORKING. (Received April 25, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, 24th April. The captain of the Californian disclaims that ehe was the steamer seen five miles off. On the Sunday evening the Californian Avas twenty miles distant, and entered at 10.30 o'clock an immence icefield. The captain stopped the engines and waited for dayligh€. The Californian's wireless apparatus was not working, or he might have saved all the passengers. He did not learn of the disaster until the morning. . NEW YORK, 24th April. It has been ascertained that if the freight steamer Lena had been equipped with wireless she could have reached the Titanic m time to save all those aboard, as she passed within twenty miles of the sinking liner.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19120425.2.48
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1912, Page 7
Word Count
132AID WAS NEAR AT HAND Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1912, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in