Stanley Lord
Captain of the SS California.
The SS California was owned by J.P.Morgan via Leyland Line.
Closet ship to the RMS Titanic in distress.
Crew witnesses flares being launched from the Titanic.
Despite the crew telling Stanley Lord about the flares being launched in a consistent pattern with a distress call, Lord said he had not been told.
1962 - To everyones astonishment, Stanley Lord left more than £500,000 in his will. (2019 = £10.5 million)[3]
Feb 1913 to 1927 - with help from a Leyland director, owned by J.P.Morgan who believed he had been unfairly treated, Lord was hired by the Nitrate Producers Steamship Co. Search mind map … Nitrate Producers Steamship Co.
Died 24 Jan 1962, from TBC. Age 84.
Note: Leyland was sold to JPMorgan and folded into International Mercantile Marine Co. in 1901 for £1.2 million.
[1] - FYI - Wiki - Stanley Lord
[2] - The Titanic and the Indifferent Stranger - by Paul Lee - p133 - Mr Lawther Latta (managed Nitrate Producers Steam Ship Company) had received a letter from Frank Strachen, a U.S. agent for Leylands … Latta’s reply to Lord, in regards to being interviewed for a job …. letter reply to Lord..’So far as our recollection of the examination goes, the chief point against you was not so much as to whether it was your command that was nearest the Titanic, but the alledged fact that rockets were seen by your officers, that you were called, but remained callous to the call. Be that so or not, the circumstance were altogether exceptional, and not such as it appears to us sufficiently serious to condemn the reputation of any man’
[3] - Stanley Lord left more than £500,000 in his will (2019 = £10.5 million)
[4] - Find a Grave - Stanley Lord
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