Rescuing Titanic shows that a glimmer of hope can be found even in great tragedy and that heroes are not always big and mighty, but can also be small and unassuming. Felkins, Katherine; Leighly, HP; Jankovic, A (1998), "The Royal Mail Ship Titanic: Did a Metallurgical Failure Cause a Night to Remember?", JOM, 50 (1): 12–18, Bibcode: 1998JOM....50a..12F, doi: 10.1007/s11837-998-0062-7, S2CID 109593098, archived from the original on 30 June 2018 , retrieved 10 January 2015 Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR (14 May 1869– 4 November 1940) was a British merchant seaman and a seagoing officer for the Cunard Line. [1] He is best known as the captain of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia, when it rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic after the ship sank in 1912 in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. [1] Donahue, James (20 September 1911). "The Titanic's Sister Ship Olympic". Perdurabo10.tripod.com. Archived from the original on 4 July 2013 . Retrieved 28 May 2013. Paper says Titanic discovered". The San Bernardino County Sun. 1 September 1985. p.3. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018 . Retrieved 26 July 2016– via Newspapers.com.

Building a Prosperous and United Community: A Progress Report" (PDF). British Government. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2017 . Retrieved 3 February 2018. Hutchings, David F.; de Kerbrech, Richard P. (2011). RMS Titanic 1909–12 (Olympic Class): Owners' Workshop Manual. Sparkford, Yeovil: Haynes. ISBN 978-1-84425-662-4. On 23 April, the Daily Mail reported: "Late in the afternoon hope died out. The waiting crowds thinned, and silent men and women sought their homes. In the humbler homes of Southampton there is scarcely a family who has not lost a relative or friend. Children returning from school appreciated something of tragedy, and woeful little faces were turned to the darkened, fatherless homes." [196]The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with a gymnasium, swimming pool, smoking rooms, high-class restaurants and cafes, a Turkish bath, and hundreds of opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger "marconigrams" and for the ship's operational use. Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, contributing to its reputation as "unsinkable". The Olympic was fourteen times greater in tonnage than the Brescia in which I was plodding along: that is, she had a tonnage equal to a fleet of fourteen average cargo steamers. She was a whole fleet in one hull. It seemed fantastic to me, as to many others who had begun their sea careers in sailing vessels of 1,000 tons. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners built for the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, the chief naval architect of the shipyard, died in the disaster. Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from the British Isles, Scandinavia, and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada. Titanic propulsion was supplied by three main engines—two reciprocating four- cylinder, triple-expansion steam engines and one centrally placed low-pressure Parsons turbine—each driving a propeller. The two reciprocating engines had a combined output of 30,000 horsepower (22,000 kW). The output of the steam turbine was 16,000 horsepower (12,000kW). [16] The White Star Line had used the same combination of engines on an earlier liner, Laurentic, where it had been a great success. [29] It provided a good combination of performance and speed; reciprocating engines by themselves were not powerful enough to propel an Olympic-class liner at the desired speeds, while turbines were sufficiently powerful but caused uncomfortable vibrations, a problem that affected the all-turbine Cunard liners Lusitania and Mauretania. [30] By combining reciprocating engines with a turbine, fuel usage could be reduced and motive power increased, while using the same amount of steam. [31] New Titanic Belfast complex opens". BBC. 31 March 2012. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 3 February 2018.

Mat: It’s always interesting seeing a spread come to life from start to end and one of my favourites is the ‘Passengers’ scene near the start. From early sketches to finished product, could you talk us through the process? Even before the survivors arrived in New York, investigations were being planned to discover what had happened, and what could be done to prevent a recurrence. Inquiries were held in both the United States and the United Kingdom, the former more robustly critical of traditions and practices, and scathing of the failures involved, and the latter broadly more technical and expert-orientated. [206]

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As soon as the Olympic was launched, the keel of her sister ship Titanic was laid down. Work began on the second vessel immediately, from the same plans, with only minor modifications. A third giant sister was to follow (the Britannic). Mersey, Lord (1999) [1912]. The Loss of the Titanic, 1912. The Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-11-702403-8. Crosbie, Duncan; Mortimer, Sheila (2006). Titanic: The Ship of Dreams. New York, NY: Orchard Books. ISBN 978-0-439-89995-6.

Navigation Center, Ice Patrol". Navcen.uscg.gov. Archived from the original on 22 July 2013 . Retrieved 28 May 2013. Rostron continued in command of the Carpathia for a year before transferring to the RMS Caronia (1904). Afterwards, from 1913 to 1914 he took command of the RMS Carmania (1905), RMS Campania, and RMS Lusitania. Rostron was captain of the RMS Aulania when the First World War began and the ship was requisitioned as a troopship, which Rostron continued to command. In 1915, Rostron and Aulania were involved in the Battle of Gallipoli in Ottoman Turkey, for which he was mentioned in dispatches for his services. [23] It was 1912, and the golden age of steam travel. Unlike the years before, when travel across the Atlantic was long and arduous, the huge steam ships such as the Titanic and the Carpathia could make the crossing in just eight days, and offered luxury aboard ship for those that could afford it.Behe, George (2015). Voices from the Carpathia: Rescuing RMS Titanic. Cheltenham: History Press. ISBN 978-0-750-96464-7. Third Class (commonly referred to as steerage) accommodations aboard Titanic were not as luxurious as First or Second Class, but were better than on many other ships of the time. They reflected the improved standards which the White Star Line had adopted for trans-Atlantic immigrant and lower-class travel. On most other North Atlantic passenger ships at the time, Third Class accommodations consisted of little more than open dormitories in the forward end of the vessels, in which hundreds of people were confined, often without adequate food or toilet facilities.