Carpathia
Books
- Twenty Lifeboats Titanic, the Inquiries, and the Remaking of Maritime Law · Liszt Think
On the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with lifeboats lowered half full.
- The Marconi Room (Liverpool and Seaward, 1900–April 1912)…The technology had outrun the regulations, and no one in Whitehall seemed to notice. This regulatory silence meant that ships like the RMS Carpathia, a Cunard liner built in 1903, or the SS Californian, a Leyland Line freighter launched in 1901, installed wireless voluntarily—as a commer…
- The Lookout’s Cry…the Californian, stopped for the night, surrounded by ice, her wireless operator asleep. The nearest ship that would hear the call was the Carpathia, fifty-eight miles away, steaming toward Gibraltar, her captain about to be awakened by a distress signal. Later, the inquiries would exami…
- The First Call from Boat Deck…with Andrews. He stood there now, or paced nearby. The wireless continued to send. The distress calls went out. Ships were responding. The Carpathia was turning toward them, steaming from fifty-eight miles away. But fifty-eight miles was four hours at full speed. The time Andrews had est…