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Home from the Sea by Arthur Rostron5/23/2023 ![]() (1913) The Rescue of the Titanic Survivors. An incredible accomplishment that Rostron, as a religious man, put down to the ‘hands of god’ as Rostron’s granddaughter Rosemary Pettet explained in an article to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the d isaster with ITV news in 2012 which you can access, here. The Carpathia exceeded its normal speed of 14 knots, and in Rostron ’ s autobiography Home From The Sea, he states that ‘The Carpathia was a fourteen-knot ship, but that night for three and a half hours she worked up to seventeen’ ( Rostron, 1931, p. On receiving the news, Captain Arthur Rostron immediately set in motion a rescue mission and prepared the ship to take on survivors. Wireless Operator Harold Cottam having stayed ten minutes later than normal on his shift, intercepted the call. ![]() In the early hours of the 15 th April HMS Carpathia received a distress signal. ![]() Holding an estimated 2,224 passengers more that 1,500 of which died in the disaster. On the 14 th of April 1912 the RMS Titanic hit a large iceberg on her maiden voyage to New York. Research from his autobiography Home From The Sea (1931) and other sources included in the bibliography cu l minate in a lifetime of achievements from a local man. ![]() ![]() In the following blog post I will look at the life of Arthur Rostron and his amazing rescue mission. ![]()
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