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  2. RMS Carpathia - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Arthur Rostron - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Sinking of the Titanic - Wikipedia

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    RMS Carpathia arrived about an hour and a half after the sinking and rescued all of the 710 survivors by 09:15 on 15 April. The disaster shocked the world and caused widespread outrage over the lack of lifeboats, lax regulations, and the unequal treatment of third-class passengers during the evacuation.

  5. Enduring mystery: Do these photos show the iceberg that sank ...

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    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.

  6. SS Californian - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Jack Thayer - Wikipedia

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    He was so distraught and frozen that he did not notice his mother in nearby Lifeboat 4; nor did she notice him. 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]

  8. Lifeboats of the Titanic - Wikipedia

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    Pusey mentioned that the crew had lost all their kit and that their pay stopped from the moment of the sinking. Cosmo responded: "Very well, I will give you a fiver each to start a new kit!" Aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, he did as he promised, presenting each of the seven crewmen in his lifeboat a cheque for £5.

  9. Jack Phillips (wireless operator) - Wikipedia

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    Salon Steward Thomas Whiteley may have been Bride's source for the story; in a press interview, Whiteley claimed that Phillips had been aboard the collapsible, died and was taken aboard Carpathia; as no other witness in 1912 claimed Phillips' body was recovered, and his name was never mentioned by any source aboard Carpathia as being one of the ...