Carpathia lands the survivors at New York

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1. Story
2. She stopped first at White Star's Pier 59 to put off Titanic's thirteen recovered lifeboats, then berthed at Cunard's Pier 54. Tens of thousands waited on the waterfront in the rain. Rostron had refused to release survivor accounts by wireless during the passage, so the first full account of the disaster reached the world that night.
3. Knowledge
4. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
5. RMS Carpathia
6. Captain Arthur Rostron
7. Carpathia lands the survivors at New York
8. Connections
9. RMS Carpathia
10. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
11. Captain Arthur Rostron
12. RMS Titanic
13. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
14. Captain Arthur Rostron
15. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
16. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
17. Carpathia lands the survivors at New York
18. RMS Titanic
19. RMS Carpathia
20. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
21. Carpathia lands the survivors at New York
22. US Senate inquiry opens at the Waldorf-Astoria
23. RMS Carpathia
24. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
25. Carpathia lands the survivors at New York
26. Evidence
27. 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.
28. Criticised the Californian's failure to respond to rockets, the absence of lifeboat drill and of a continuous wireless watch, and the inadequacy of lifeboat provision; recommended lifeboat seats for every person carried.