RMS Carpathia

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1. Story
2. Cunard Line steamer under Captain Arthur Rostron, eastbound for the Mediterranean when her wireless operator picked up Titanic's distress call. About 58 nautical miles away, she turned, drove north at close to 17 knots through the same ice field with extra lookouts posted and the heating shut down to raise steam, and reached the lifeboats around 04:00 on 15 April. She took aboard roughly 705 survivors and landed them at New York on 18 April. Carpathia was torpedoed and sunk by U-55 off southern Ireland in July 1918.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
6. RMS Carpathia
7. Captain Arthur Rostron
8. Connections
9. RMS Titanic
10. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
11. Captain Arthur Rostron
12. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
13. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
14. Carpathia lands the survivors at New York
15. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
16. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
17. Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
18. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
19. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
20. Titanic wreck site
21. Captain Edward John Smith
22. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
23. Thomas Andrews
24. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
25. Titanic's lifeboat complement
26. Olympic-class liner
27. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
28. Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
29. RMS Carpathia
30. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
31. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
32. Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
33. Titanic launched at Belfast
34. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
35. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
36. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
37. Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
38. Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
39. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
40. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
41. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
42. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
43. Iceberg sighted and struck
44. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
45. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
46. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
47. Last boat launched from the davits
48. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
49. Titanic founders
50. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
51. Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
52. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
53. RMS Titanic
54. RMS Carpathia
55. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
56. Carpathia lands the survivors at New York
57. US Senate inquiry opens at the Waldorf-Astoria
58. RMS Carpathia
59. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
60. Carpathia lands the survivors at New York
61. Evidence
62. 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.
63. 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.