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Scenes of the Carpathia

by Barbara Clements

See a montage of images, mostly exteriors, of RMS Carpathia. Rostron commanded the ship throughout 1912. He and his officers during the Titanic rescue appear in one photo, and another slightly blurred image shows Carpathia from astern, approaching New York, with some of Titanic’s lifeboats slung on her davits outboard of her own. The sequence also contains several images of Titanic survivors. The final photograph is of Carpathia sinking into the Atlantic in July 1918, the victim of three German torpedoes.

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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 His unpublished research projects include writing a history of the Second World War-era, U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mohawk for his master's thesis and two vessel histories for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)

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