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Leslie Reade & edited by Edward P. de Groot.

Winner of the Titanic Book of the Year Award for 1993.

Reade, Leslie & edited by Edward P. de Groot. The Ship that Stood Still. The Californian and Her Mysterious Role in the Titanic Disaster. 1st American printing. NY: Norton. 1993. hardcover. isbn: 0393035379. scarcity: fairly common.

Unlike Peter Padfield and Leslie Harrison before him, Mr. Reade’s book is not a defense of Captain Lord and the role of the Californian. Reade was convinced that the Californian was close enough to have rescued the Titanic passengers and through painstaking detail and analysis he creates a case that, in the end, is very powerful.

On the downside, Reade, like Harrison before him, tends to pick only the testimony that supports his position, while ignoring equally pertinent data that does not. Still, of the three major works on the subject up to this point, Reade does the best job of bringing the many conflicting details into the most coherent whole.


Reade, Leslie & edited by Edward P. de Groot. The Ship that Stood Still. The Californian and Her Mysterious Role in the Titanic Disaster. 1st British printing. Somerset: Patrick Stephens. 1993. hardcover. isbn: 1852604166. scarcity: hard to find.

The American and British editions published more or less simultaneously.
The cover art for this version is the same as the American edition.