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SCANDAL! There was a steamer within five miles of the RMS Titanic as she sank, according to ample witnesses - including experienced crew who studied this sea-borne hope through binoculars.
The officers told panicking passengers to hush: rescue was imminent. Captain E.J. Smith even instructed Titanic lifeboats to row to the tantalising stranger and return. Scandal! The other ship did nothing§
Seen and pusued by launched lifeboats, showing just how close salvation had been, the mystery ship had disappeared by daybreak - her presence having slowad the filling of boats in the first place.
Scandal! Why did the other ship leave, despite a storm of unavailing distress rockets she could not have failed to see? Why did she ignore wireless appeals and frantic Morse lamp signalling at close quarters? What, ultimately, was her identity?
The surpassing scandal is the plain truth that the British Board of Trade was told in 1912 of serious allegations against th Canadian Pacific liner Mount Temple and her Captain, James Moore - and failed to take any steps at all.
This book uncovers those allegations, the identity of claimants, and the reasons why they must be taken seriously. A century since the sinking comes the trial of Mount Temple...