Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue

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1. Story
2. Rostron arrived some four hours after the distress call, having run about 58 nautical miles through ice. Boat 2 came alongside first; the last survivors were taken aboard by around 08:30, roughly 705 in all. The Californian, having finally switched on her wireless, reached the scene later that morning and found only wreckage.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. RMS Carpathia
6. SS Californian
7. Captain Arthur Rostron
8. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
9. Connections
10. RMS Carpathia
11. Captain Arthur Rostron
12. RMS Titanic
13. SS Californian
14. RMS Titanic
15. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
16. Captain Arthur Rostron
17. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
18. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
19. Carpathia lands the survivors at New York
20. RMS Carpathia
21. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
22. Carpathia lands the survivors at New York
23. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
24. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
25. Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
26. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
27. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
28. Titanic wreck site
29. Captain Edward John Smith
30. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
31. Thomas Andrews
32. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
33. Titanic's lifeboat complement
34. Olympic-class liner
35. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
36. Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
37. RMS Carpathia
38. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
39. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
40. Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
41. Titanic launched at Belfast
42. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
43. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
44. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
45. Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
46. Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
47. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
48. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
49. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
50. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
51. Iceberg sighted and struck
52. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
53. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
54. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
55. Last boat launched from the davits
56. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
57. Titanic founders
58. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
59. Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
60. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
61. Captain Stanley Lord
62. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
63. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
64. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
65. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
66. US Senate report submitted
67. Mersey report published
68. Evidence
69. Carpathia was about 58 nautical miles from the transmitted distress position, worked up to roughly 17 knots through ice, reached the first lifeboat about 04:00 on 15 April and took aboard approximately 705 survivors, landing them at New York on 18 April.