Among the nearby ships which might have been able to help save some of the 2,240 passengers and crew was the SS Californian, which failed to communicate with the Titanic and spot that it was ...

The SS United States, a historic ocean liner ... At nearly 1,000-feet-long, the 75-year-old ship is longer than the ill-fated Titanic, and unique for holding the speed record for crossing the ...

Compounding this, the wireless radio operator of the SS Californian, a merchant vessel about 10 miles away from the Titanic, had gone to bed, so the sinking liner's urgent calls for help went ...