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RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in their shipyard in Wallsend, England. The Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 from Liverpool to Boston , and continued on this route before being transferred to Mediterranean service in 1904.
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD (14 May 1869 – 4 November 1940) was a British merchant seaman and a seagoing officer for the Cunard Line. [1] He is best known as the captain of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia, when it rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic after the ship sank in 1912 in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Harold Thomas Cottam (27 January 1891 – 30 May 1984) was a British wireless operator on the RMS Carpathia who fortuitously happened to receive the distress call from the sinking RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.
Carpathia passenger Howard Chapin later noted that the night was "bitterly cold." The Carpathia reached the scene at 5:30 a.m., three hours after the Titanic went down with 1,503 passengers and crew.
Californian actually passed the Carpathia to the west, then turned, and headed northeast back towards the rescue ship, arriving at 08:30. [47] Carpathia was just finishing picking up the last of Titanic 's survivors. After communicating with Californian, Carpathia left the area, leaving Californian to search for any other
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Lifeboat 12 was the last lifeboat to reach the RMS Carpathia, the first rescue ship to arrive at the scene, at 8:30 a.m. [2] Thayer's father did not board a lifeboat and perished in the sinking. [3] Thayer was one of about 40 persons who jumped or fell into the water and survived.
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