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Person1869 – 1940
Arthur Rostron
Captain of Cunard’s Carpathia, who answered Titanic’s distress call, drove his ship through the ice and rescued some 700 survivors
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Answering Titanic’s distress call, Cunard’s Carpathia raced through the ice, picked up some 710 survivors from the lifeboats early on 15 April 1912 and landed them in New York on the night of the 18th.
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- The Titanic1911 – 1985
From the launch of the “unsinkable” ship to her maiden voyage, the iceberg, Carpathia’s rescue, the convention that changed the rules of the sea, and the wreck found on the Atlantic floor more than seventy years later