(TITANIC) S.S. CALIFORNIAN CAPTAIN IS DEFENDED
Excellent content T.L.S. from the Stanley T. Lord, son of S.S. Californian Capt. Stanley Lord, 1p. 4to., Cheshire, England, Dec. 12, 1970. The younger Lord defends his father's reputation, in part: "...Many people thought... that the findings of the inquiry under Lord Mersey finished my father professionally, but this was not so... he was given command of one of the Nitrate Producers vessels... I really do not think he bothered much about the business, as his conscience was quite clear regarding the rescue of the Titanic passengers... it was never in his power to have been of assistance... What, however, did enrage him was the innuendo by Rufus Isaacs that he was drunk in his cabin... father was a teetotal... as his ship was static all night how on earth could the moving light seen be from the Californian... I remember my father telling me how this ship which was supposed to be the Titanic... was an oil burning tramp... oil and no electric lights...". Very good.