"reunited, but in most cases hopes died as loved ones failed to reappear. At 09:15, two more ships appeared on the scene – ""Mount Temple"" and ""Californian"", which had finally learned of the disaster when her radio operator returned to duty – but by then there were no more survivors to rescue. ""Carpathia"" had been bound for Fiume, Austria-Hungary (now Rijeka, Croatia), but as she had neither the stores nor the medical facilities to cater for the survivors, Rostron ordered that a course be calculated to return the ship to New York, where the survivors could be properly looked after."
"RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS ""Titanic"" was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff"
"1912, the ocean liner ""RMS Titanic"" was en route in the North Atlantic to New York when it sank, killing 1,500 of the 2,200 people. On April 18 the rescue ship ""RMS Carpathia"" arrived and was met by some 40,000 onlookers. Immediate relief in the form of clothing and transportation to shelters was provided by the Women's Relief Committee, the Travelers Aid Society of New York, and the Council of Jewish Women, among other organizations. Two ""Titanic"" memorials are located in Manhattan. On April 13, 1913, the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse in Lower Manhattan was constructed on the roof of the"
"factors contributed to the lifeboats departing with only half capacity. 1,503 people did not make it on to a lifeboat and were aboard ""Titanic"" when she sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean at 2:20 a.m. on 15 April 1912. 705 people, mostly women and children, remained in the lifeboats until later that morning when they were rescued by RMS ""Carpathia"". Those aboard the lifeboats were picked up by ""Carpathia"" over the course of 4 hours and 30 minutes, from about 4 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., and 13 of the lifeboats were also taken aboard. The lifeboats were"
"Saved from the Titanic Saved from the Titanic is a 1912 American silent motion picture short starring Dorothy Gibson, an American film actress who survived the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" on April 15, 1912. Premiering in the United States just 29 days after the event, it is the earliest dramatization about the tragedy. Gibson had been one of 28 people aboard the first lifeboat to be launched from ""Titanic"" and was rescued about five and a half hours after leaving the ship. On returning to New York City, she co-wrote the script and played a fictionalized version of herself."
"virtue of the terrible strain she had been under to graphically portray her part."" Saved from the Titanic Saved from the Titanic is a 1912 American silent motion picture short starring Dorothy Gibson, an American film actress who survived the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" on April 15, 1912. Premiering in the United States just 29 days after the event, it is the earliest dramatization about the tragedy. Gibson had been one of 28 people aboard the first lifeboat to be launched from ""Titanic"" and was rescued about five and a half hours after leaving the ship. On returning to"
"Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic The lifeboats of the RMS ""Titanic"" played a crucial role in the disaster of 14–15 April 1912. One of the ship's legacies was that she had too few lifeboats to evacuate all those on board. The 20 lifeboats that she did carry could only accommodate 1,178 people, despite the fact that there were approximately 2,208 on board. had a maximum capacity of 3,327 passengers and crew. Eighteen lifeboats were used, loading between 11:45 p.m.–2:15 a.m., though Collapsible Boat A floated off the ship's partially submerged deck, and Collapsible Boat B floated away upside down minutes"
"Arthur Rostron Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR (14 May 1869 – 4 November 1940) was a captain for the Cunard Line. He is best remembered as the captain of the ocean liner RMS ""Carpathia"", at the time which rescued hundreds of survivors of the RMS ""Titanic"" when it sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. Rostron won wide praise for his energetic efforts to reach the ""Titanic"" before she sank, and his efficient preparations for and conduct of the rescue of the survivors. He was awarded a Congressional Gold"
"original lifeboats, some surviving fittings can still be seen, such as a bronze White Star Line burgee removed from the hull of one lifeboat by a souvenir hunter and now displayed in the museum of the ""Titanic"" Historical Society. A full-size replica lifeboat is on display in Belfast at the ""Titanic"" Belfast visitor attraction. Books Online sources Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic The lifeboats of the RMS ""Titanic"" played a crucial role in the disaster of 14–15 April 1912. One of the ship's legacies was that she had too few lifeboats to evacuate all those on board. The 20 lifeboats"
"Crew of the RMS Titanic The crew of the RMS ""Titanic"" were among the estimated 2,344 people who sailed on the maiden voyage of the second of the White Star Line's ""Olympic"" class ocean sea liners, from Southampton, England to New York City in the US. Halfway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including approximately 688 crew members. The following is a full list of known crew members who sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"". Included in"
"had taken place in the month after the sinking, led to changes in safety practices following the disaster. The sinking of the , a trans-Atlantic passenger liner operated by White Star Line, occurred in the early hours of 15 April 1912 while the ship was on its maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York, United States. The sinking was caused by a collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic some 700 nautical miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Over 1500 passengers and crew died, with some 710 survivors in ""Titanic""s lifeboats rescued by a few hours later. There"
"the dining salon and the grand staircase were in identical style and created by the same craftsmen. Large parts of the interior of the ""Olympic"" were later sold and are now in the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, which gives an impression of how the interior of the ""Titanic"" looked. Books: Journals and news articles: Investigations: RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers"
"saved. Thirty men lost their lives in the disaster. One survivor, nurse Violet Jessop was notable as having also survived the sinking of RMS ""Titanic"" in 1912, and had also been on board RMS ""Olympic"", when it collided with HMS ""Hawke"" in 1911. ""Britannic"" was the largest ship lost during World War I, but her sinking did not receive the same attention as the sinking of her sister, ""Titanic"", or the sinking of the Cunard superliner , when she was sunk by a torpedo in the Irish Sea. When ""Titanic"" sank in 1912 and ""Britannic"" sank in 1916, their sinkings"
"hours of April 15, 1912 while the ship was on its maiden voyage from Southampton, United Kingdom, to New York City, United States. The sinking was caused by a collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic some 700 nautical miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Over 1500 passengers and crew died, with some 710 survivors in ""Titanic""s lifeboats rescued by a short time later. There was initially some confusion in both the USA and the UK over the extent of the disaster, with some newspapers at first reporting that the ship and the passengers and crew were safe. By"
"RMS Titanic in popular culture The RMS ""Titanic"" has subsequently played a prominent role in popular culture since her sinking in 1912, with the loss of over 1,500 of the 2,200 lives on board. The disaster and the ""Titanic"" herself have been objects of public fascination for many years. They have inspired numerous books, plays, films, songs, poems, and works of art. ""Titanic""'s story has been interpreted in many overlapping ways, including as a symbol of technological hubris, as basis for fail-safe improvements, as a classic disaster tale, as an indictment of the class divisions of the time, and as"
"RMS Wray Castle RMS Wray Castle was a training college for Merchant Navy radio officers based at Wray Castle in the Lake District, from 1958 to 1998. At 11:40 p.m., on 14 April 1912 the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg. The collision opened five of her watertight compartments to the sea; the ship gradually filled with water and by 2:20 a.m., she broke apart and foundered, with well over one thousand people still aboard. Two hours after ""Titanic"" foundered, the Cunard liner RMS ""Carpathia"" arrived and took aboard an estimated 705 survivors. There was worldwide shock at the huge loss"
"Remember"" he is played by Anthony Bushell. In 1979's ""SOS Titanic"" he is portrayed by Philip Stone. In the 1996 TV drama ""Titanic"" he is portrayed by Terence Kelly. Arthur Rostron Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR (14 May 1869 – 4 November 1940) was a captain for the Cunard Line. He is best remembered as the captain of the ocean liner RMS ""Carpathia"", at the time which rescued hundreds of survivors of the RMS ""Titanic"" when it sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. Rostron won wide praise for"
"the lifeboats. ""Carpathia"" would end up rescuing 705 survivors out of the 2,228 passengers and crew on board ""Titanic""; at least one survivor is said to have died after reaching the ship. After consulting with White Star Line managing director and ""Titanic"" survivor J. Bruce Ismay, Rostron decided to turn the ship around and return to New York City to disembark the survivors. Later, Rostron testified at both the US Senate inquiry and the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic. ""Titanic"" survivors, including Margaret Brown, presented Rostron with a silver cup and gold medal for"
"1848 and 1950. On 11 April 1912, as Queenstown, it was the final port of call for the before she set out across the Atlantic on the last leg of her maiden voyage. She was assisted by the P.S. ""America"" and the P.S. ""Ireland"", two ageing White Star Line tenders, along with several other smaller boats delivering first-class passengers' luggage. Some sources and local lore suggest that a ""Titanic"" crew member, John Coffey, a native of Queenstown, left the ship at this time, thereby saving his life. 123 passengers boarded at Queenstown with only 44 surviving the sinking. Cobh was"
"wind, spreading the flames down the length of the ship, racing through the mahogany veneer and varnished bulkheads, as passengers jumped into the sea. The passing barque, ""Maurice"" of France rescued most of the survivors (67), and the ""Catarina"" of Norway picked up more (22) the next morning. As the blackened hulk was left to sink, all but 89 of 542 passengers were lost. Amongst the survivors were: Amongst those who drowned were: The fire and subsequent sinking has featured in multiple paintings, including: SS Austria SS ""Austria"" was a steamship of the Hamburg America Line which sank on 13"
"RMS Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 ""Titanic"" Lifeboat No. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship . It was the fourth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on April 14, 1912. With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night. Boat No. 1 was one of two small ""emergency"" wooden cutters that were located one on each side of the ""Titanic""; No. 1 was on the starboard side. Although they performed double-duty as lifeboats, their primary"
"Passengers of the RMS Titanic An estimated 2,400 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"", the second of the White Star Line's ""Olympic"" class ocean liners, from Southampton, England to New York City, New York, US. Partway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including approximately 815 of the passengers. The ""Titanic""s passengers were divided into three separate classes, determined not only by the price of their ticket but by wealth and social class: those travelling in first"
"Joseph Zupicich Joseph Zupicich (October 1893 – April 11, 1987) was a crewmember on the RMS ""Carpathia"" when RMS ""Titanic"" survivors boarded the liner after being rescued on April 15, 1912 from lifeboats by the Carpathia crew. Zupicich was born in 1893 in Istria Austria-Hungary. Zupicich worked as a steward foreman on the RMS Carpathia, a Cunard passenger liner that sailed the North Atlantic. ""The Morning Call"" quoted a 1982 interview of Zupicich with the ""Shamokin News"" on the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Zupicich and other stewards were playing cards on the night of April 14,"
"imminent danger of sinking, might founder at any time. In the early morning of 11 October, the tanker SS ""Narragansett"", one of the eleven rescue vessels, turned on her pumps and sprayed lubricating oil on the sea to help calm the surface. The combination of the oil and the lessening of the storm allowed many more lifeboats to be sent to ""Volturno""s aid. With all boats recovered by 09:00, the rescue ships all resumed their original courses. In all, 521 passengers and crew members were rescued by ten of the eleven ships. The death toll was 136, mostly women and"
"on board the yacht, which was later taken under tow by . The tow was later taken over by the tug ""Mitchel"". The yacht was taken to Frederiksted, United States Virgin Islands; none of the crew were injured despite their ordeal. MY Titanic The motor yacht Titanic is a 1,900-tonne yacht that was formerly the Japanese Government's research/fishing vessel Toko Maru and later Kelso. In March 2010, she developed a leak while sailing in the Caribbean. Her rescue by the United States Coast Guard was co-ordinated from the United Kingdom. Originally built in 1971, ""Titanic"" is a former research/fishing boat."
"called out 60 times, greatly distinguishing themselves with the saving of 170 lives, in addition to the men brought back from Dunkirk: (Jeff Morris). One of the Dunkirk 'little ships' still moored at Ramsgate and open to the public is the Motor Yacht ""Sundowner"", (built 1912) once the private yacht of the second officer of the ""Titanic"", C.H. Lightoller, whom surviving that fatal wreck later insisted personally at being at the helm during the evacuation of Dunkirk. He succeeded in bringing home 127 members of the British Expeditionary Force in just one trip. After these events 42,783 soldiers were transported"
"""Titanic's"" rescued passengers and crew travelled back to Britain aboard her, departing New York on 2 May 1912. The passengers included White Star Line chairman J. Bruce Ismay and Millvina Dean, the disaster's youngest and last survivor. During World War I, ""Adriatic"" served as a troopship and survived the war without incident. After the war ended, she returned to passenger service. In 1928, she was converted to a ""cabin-class"" ship. In 1933, she was withdrawn from the North Atlantic route and was converted into cruising. Following the successful 1933 ""Peace Cruise"" in the Baltic by ""Calgaric"", in 1934 the British"
"list created by the moving of coal inside the ship prior to the encounter with the iceberg. Some of these foremost Titanic experts have published a detailed rebuttal of Molony's claims. RMS Titanic alternative theories The sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" in 1912 attracted so much controversy that several alternative theories about its sinking have gained support. One version is that the sunken ship was actually the ""Olympic"", near-identical sister-ship of the ""Titanic"", which was the subject of a large insurance claim, and that the two vessels were secretly switched before the voyage. Another was that the ""Titanic""s owner, J.P."
"April 1912 at around 11:40 pm, while the RMS ""Titanic"" was sailing about south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the ship struck an iceberg and began to sink. Shortly before midnight, Captain Edward Smith ordered the ship's lifeboats to be readied and a distress call was sent out. The closest ship to respond was Cunard Line's away, which would arrive in an estimated four hours—too late to rescue all of ""Titanic"" passengers. Forty-five minutes after the ship hit the iceberg, Captain Smith ordered the lifeboats to be loaded and lowered under the orders women and children first. The first"
"Titanic (2012 miniseries) Titanic is a four-part television miniseries period drama written by Julian Fellowes based on the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"", a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from , United Kingdom, to New York City, United States. It was released in at least 86 countries in March and April 2012 for the disaster's 100th anniversary, 15 April 2012, one of two such productions, the other was """" (April 2012). ""Titanic"" is a four-part television costume drama created by producer Nigel Stafford-Clark"
"sinking of the ocean liner on 15 April 1912, survivors were rescued by the RMS ""Carpathia"" of the Cunard Line. Also employed by the Marconi Company was David Sarnoff, who later headed RCA. Wireless communications were reportedly maintained for 72 hours between ""Carpathia"" and Sarnoff, but Sarnoff's involvement has been questioned by some modern historians. When ""Carpathia"" docked in New York, Marconi went aboard with a reporter from ""The New York Times"" to talk with Bride, the surviving operator. On 18 June 1912, Marconi gave evidence to the Court of Inquiry into the loss of ""Titanic"" regarding the marine telegraphy's"
"RMS Titanic alternative theories The sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" in 1912 attracted so much controversy that several alternative theories about its sinking have gained support. One version is that the sunken ship was actually the ""Olympic"", near-identical sister-ship of the ""Titanic"", which was the subject of a large insurance claim, and that the two vessels were secretly switched before the voyage. Another was that the ""Titanic""s owner, J.P. Morgan, wanted to eliminate several prominent bankers who were opposing his plan for the creation of a U.S. central bank. The ""Titanic"" struck an iceberg, leaving a hole in her starboard"
"Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic The Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the ""Titanic"" is a granite monument located on St. Nicholas Place, at the Pier Head, in Liverpool, England. The city of Liverpool is strongly associated with the ill-fated liner that sank on 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic with the loss of some 1,517 lives. The RMS ""Titanic"" was owned by White Star Line which was founded in Liverpool in 1840. Liverpool was also the port of registry of the liner with the words 'Titanic, Liverpool' visible on"