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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.
Árpád Lengyel, né Árpád Weisz (19 March 1886 – 8 September 1940) was a Hungarian physician, and ship's medical officer of the RMS Carpathia at the time of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. He played a key role in the salvage operation, welcoming the survivors on board the Carpathia. [1]
Carpathia, a fictional European kingdom in the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl.; Carpathia, a fictional European country that is the home of the character Tatiana in the television series The Power.
For the next four and a half hours, the ship took on the 705 survivors from Titanic ' s 20 lifeboats [15] before setting course for New York. From the morning of 14 April before the disaster, to the evening of 18 April, when Carpathia arrived in New York, Cottam did not go off duty and slept less than ten hours. [ 16 ]
Carthaginian was a three-masted barque outfitted as a whaler that served both as a movie prop and a museum ship in Hawaii.Laid down and launched in Denmark in 1921 as the three-masted schooner Wandia, she was converted in 1964–1965 into a typical square-rigged 19th-century whaler for the filming of the 1966 movie Hawaii.
[1] His daughter, Marie Zupicich, in 1968 wrote down an eight-page accounting of the five hours that her father and fellow crew members spent rescuing Titanic victims and taking them aboard the Carpathia. She mailed it to newspaper man William C. LeVan, and he published the story, along with a photo of Zupicich. [2]
The Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, [1] also known as the Hungarian conquest [2] or the Hungarian land-taking [3] (Hungarian: honfoglalás, lit. 'taking/conquest of the homeland'), [4] was a series of historical events ending with the settlement of the Hungarians in Central Europe in the late 9th and early 10th century.