THE TITANIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 17 May 1912, Page 5

THE TITANIC.

."THE VESSEL'S END

BY CAipidE—PBES3 ASSOCIATION— COPVBIGHT.

LONDON, May 16. Mr Groves, third officer of the Cali,4'ornian, testified that at ten minutes eleveii he saw a steamer twelve miles distant. He told the captain. Judging from the deck lights she was -a passenger steamer. Tiie captain remarked that it was only a passenger -steamer in the vicinity of the Titanic. This was at 11.40. Witness still saw •tht masthead lights, and told Stone, who relieved him. Owing to her change •■of position the deck lights were shut out. Witness proceeded to the wireless loom and awoke the operator, and asked "What ship is in touch?" The operator replied '''Only the Titanic." A\ itness put the instruments to his ■t?ars, but "heard nothing. He was only • listening, however, for fifteen or thirty ■seconds.

The Court was thrilled by evidence the Titanic's calls were missed by ,-a few seconds by a liner twelve miles •distant.

Lord Mersey asked: Do you think, from what you heard subsequently, that the steamer was the Titanic.

Groves: Yes; decidedly. The officers admitted that they had not recorded the distress signals in the log-book.

Durrant, the Mount Temple's operator, produced a record of a messagepassing between the Titanic and neighboring vessels, which disposed of the ■statement that the Titanic snubbed the Frankfurt. The latter immediately went ■to the Titanic's help. The Titanic's were clear till 1.33, when they ceased.

The Oceanic picked up one of the Titanie's collapsible boats with three bodies in it. It is believed that the -boat is the one from which twenty •'were saved, leaving three dead.