Captain of the Carpathia

The seafaring life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron

  • Blog
  • Rostron
  • Titanic
  • HMS Carpathia
You are here: Home / Cunard / Saxonia

Saxonia

by Barbara Clements

View exterior and interior images of Saxonia (with a few of Carpathia mixed in) in postcards and photographs. Built in 1900, Saxonia and ships like her, including Carpathia, were typical mid-sized Cunard liners of that era—stalwarts of ten to fifteen thousand tons designed to carry mostly second-class and immigrant passengers and large quantities of cargo on the company’s North Atlantic and Mediterranean routes. Rostron sailed in both ships in their early years as a senior officer and commanded Ivernia in 1916 and Saxonia in 1917.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Cunard

About the Author

AuthorEric Clements is professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University. The Atlantic liners were his earliest historical interest, an interest that led him to serve an enlistment in the U.S. Coast Guard and to write Captain of the Carpathia. His unpublished research projects include writing a history of the Second World War-era, U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mohawk for his master's thesis and two vessel histories for the "Historic American Engineering Record."

 

He is also the author of After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns (University of Nevada Press, 2003, reissued 2014), and of numerous articles and book reviews about the history and historic preservation of the American West.

Around the Web

From CNN: Titanic Survivor's letter: 'Disgraceful' treatment after rescue (2015)

From Smithsonian: Why the Titanic Still Fascinates Us (2012)

From YouTube: Scenes from Capathia's arrival in New York, 18 April 1912 (2014)

From History Channel: 5 Things You May Not Know About Titanic's Rescue Ship (2012)

From NUMA: Wreck of the Carpathia, Titanic's Rescuer, Found (2000)

Copyright © 2021 · Dynamik-Gen on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in