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I think I'm made the point several times above that the Captain's decision to ground the ship on the point by the lighthouse was probably his best option at the time for minimizing loss of life for passengers and crew. Some have argued that if the lifeboats had been ordered away earlier, it would have been easier to deploy them given that the ship wasn't listed as badly then. But I'm willing to await the judgment of the maritime investigation on that question.

I'm also interested in the technical details of what failed and what worked. And I still find it frustrating that no one has produced a reliable timeline. Was it an hour between the initial collision and the final grounding or two hours? That's a major difference.

Charley Noble