Greetings and kudos for the fine tribute you gave to the Carpathia, her captain and crew. The lesser known details reveal the amount of research you did for this video. The particular selection of photos also greatly added to your very smooth delivery of her "story" and Carpathia's career. Good show all round! My Hungarian grandmother came to America on the Carpathia (at two years of age) with her mother and older sister in 1908. "Father" had come to America a year earlier to secure a place to live and a job in East St. Louis. When she married, my future grand parents moved to Detroit's Hunky Town (Delray) where my grandfather would secure a successful career at Cadillac Motors for the next 38 years. Our family names are Franks, Poszgai, Choban and Horvath.
Greetings @@StunningHistory, I do thank you most kindly for pinning my comments to your presentation of Carpathia and her maritime history. Much of my recent effort has been devoted to reading and researching Carpathia history for my ever increasing Titanic archive. That endeavor lead me to your premier video of Carpathia. I am much obliged sir for your valuable contribution in keeping the memory of Carpathia alive.
@@stevefranks6541 I got obsessed with the Titanic's fate in 2012. Somebody then established the "Encyclopedia Titanica" on the net. It's the most amazing source of information ! I also managed to bag an updated version of Lawrence Beesley's book, where he mentions the situation onboard the Carpathia, after the rescue. The ship was so overcrowded, no cabins were availiable for rescued second or third class passengers. Beesley though, found himself a linen room, where he stretced out on top of some bath towels.... 😄 Stay safe and well ! Love from Norway 🇳🇴🚢
She saved my great grandfather, if it was not for her many of us including myself and family would not be here today. My family lost 5 on that day. May they never be forgotten 🙏❤
She was a legend. Her chief engineer had her pushing through the water at two knots faster than she had ever gone before. Captain Rostrom and his bridge officers showed the pinnacle of seamanship in guiding the ship through those ice infested nighttime waters to Titanic's position. In the meantime, the staff and passengers pulled together to prepare for the survivors. Remarkable story.
The chief engineer hung his hat over the pressure gauge and pushed the boilers to their absolute limit, guided only by his feel for the engines. He was a REAL engineer!
@@stevenpilling3773 But there was other things like shutting down the heating and water supply to the rest of the ship to help increase the pressure as well
My grandfather grew up in a farm in Östergötland Sweden. On the farm they had a maid, she bought a ticket to the USA on the Titanic. She was one of the people who survived the Titanic sinking and was saved by the Carpathia. She wrote us a letter from New York when she got there safely.
My great grandfather was on the Carpathia the night Titanic sank. Thankyou for posting this video it makes me feel like getting to know a part of him even though I never met him.
My father, who was born in 1915, was taken by my Grandfather to St Albans sometime in the late 20's/ early 30's to purchase a mastiff dog from Charles Lightoller the second officer (and senior surviving officer) of the Titanic. Though they met the Titanic and its sinking weren't mentioned. In the summer of 2019 I was in Halifax and visited the Titanic graves in Fairview Cemetery. Very sobering.
I get tears in my eyes at the Carpathia's dash to save the Titanic's survivor's. It's said that officers noticed Rostron in a quiet spot on the Carpathia's bridge holding his cap a bit above his head lips, moving silently, praying for everyone. Thank you, Captain Rostron and RMS Carpathia.
Nowdays its every sailors duty to come to the aid of any needing assistance it just didnt happen much until wireless radios became commonplace. Back then it was much harder to even know a ship was im trouble unless you were looking at it. Sailors are just always willing to stop what they are doing to come to anothers aid.
My Grandparents immigrated to the USA from Greece on there honeymoon in 1912 . So the Carpathia has always been a back drop to our family. Thank you Ship Geek.
Ever since I read "A Night To Remember" by Walter Lord In school in the 70s to this day, every time I hear or see anything related to the Carpathia, I get goosebumps. Thinking of how Captain Rostron and his crew risked their lives to go maximum speed through the darkness to to save as many souls on the Titanic as they could! Obviously by all the replies, this is a story that has to be told on the big screen! Someone, make this movie! It's an Absolute Home Run if it's made right!
YES! I remember that scene.Carpathia could have been torn to shreds by an Iceberg as at that speed she would be slow to respond but the Captain knew that even if the ship wasn't still afloat people sitting in open life boats could still freeze to death or drift off and be lost,The ship of honer did her crew proud.
James Cameron, he created titanic movie, let’s beg him to make three more movies, one of the Lusitania, one of the Britannic and one of the Carpathia, and maybe one just for Olympic..... Cause they also need some loving too
Besides, being knighted is no big deal anymore. They knight drugged out rock stars and just about anybody else that gets their names in the Tabloids. Kind of a dumb idea, really. But then, it is British, so.....
Rostron went on to captain the Mauretania. He pulled her into port on time almost every time. So much so that she was called the Rostron Express. A real pro.
I'm was delighted to have accidentally come across this great video. My mother's stepdad was a boilermaker on the Carpethia and was rewarded with a gold watch following the rescue mission. I will now forward this to my family.
Thanks for the upload. When I was very young I met James Bisset who was 2nd officer on the Carpathia when the Titanic rescue took place. He later became Commodore of the Cunard Line the highest position in the legendary company. Unfortunately I don't recall very much about him but of course will always remember meeting such a distinguished person.
I named my Saint Bernard after the Carpathia. Since they save people, I thought it was a fitting name. I'm happy to know that the Carpathia has not been forgotten. Wonderful video.
This era of ships was filled with such tragic ends. Carpathia, Lusitania, Titanic, Brittanic, and so many more massive beautiful ships lost. Makes it ever so much more important to preserve the survivors. Makes me super happy the Queen Mary still exists today, the gray ghost needs to be preserved as a relic to when ships were made like this.
@@petesy03 I didn’t say I didn’t believe you. I’m just saying you should really explain his service book in a video because I’d love to hear what it has to say and if he was one of the sailors I’ve read about.
@@mdteletom1288, if Follyweird tried to make a movie about the Carpathia, it would be so screwed up, full of profanity, filth, nudity, drugs and so many inconsistencies it would wind up a laughable joke.
A movie about this ship would be great. It took three torpedoes to take her down. Meanwhile Lusitania was gone in one. It's saved so many in its lifetime. I could see a brief portion with the building of her. Then the efforts to save the people of the Titanic. Then a little more of her troop transport duties ending with her sinking, knowing that even then she saved lives
My grandfather immigrated to the United States in 1907 on the Carpathia, it's amazing to be able to see actual videos of this historic ship. Thanks for the great video!
I have researched Titanic and many other ocean liners for the last 21 years and I have to say that it is so sad to see Titanic's passengers rescue ship in such bad shape lying on the ocean floor. That painting almost brought a tear to my eye.
However tragic this ending might be it's actually better than a ship getting scrapped and forgotten. Or worse, being mothballed and "stored" in some harbor waiting for somebody to rescue her. The SS United States met such a fate. Once the proud holder of the Blue Riband (and still the fastest ocean liner ever) she has been sitting in Philadelphia harbor for 52 years now, slowly rusting away. While some money has been raised there's still no definitive plan of what to do with her. Jet airliners "killed" her and all other ocean liners. Relics of a bygone era. Let's be honest now. Would Titanic have been remembered if not for the tragic sinking with a great loss in life? The record of the largest ship would have been hers for 9 months and then the German ocean liner SS Imperator would have overtaken it - as did many ships in the golden era of ocean liners the 1920's and 1930's. She wasn't a technical tour de force even in the the 1910's (the Cunard liners were faster and used up less fuel). In any engineering the state-of-the-art technology is the truly defining characteristic. Art and style comes in 2nd place (which is why the Art Deco and Art Moderne era of the 1920's and 1930's has aged so gracefully). Luxury and legends is for those solely pre-occupied with fame. Everything has to be taken by their own qualities - be it people or objects built by men. During WWI the German submarines sunk almost 5000 ships in the Atlantic alone. For the loss of 178 submarines. I have a feeling many of those 5000 ships which were sunk by submarines during WWI had glorious careers and fine crews, but since they weren't part of any famous event I suppose they're not important to you. How much is a human life worth? During WWI many thousand civilians and crews met their end after being torpedoed by a submarine. My point is that there are many unsung heroes both in war and peace time.
I found out a few days ago that my great grandma when she was 6 years old took the Carpathia to America. She was a Hungarian imigrant. This was before it rescued titanic survivors. Her family settled in south bend Indiana. Where he dad worked at bendix.
As a former navigating officer of the ship Antara, I would like to pay my highest respects to the captain and crew of Carpathia. Even though they have been gone for a long time.
Thank you for this video. Titanic gets all the videos on YT, which is fine, but Carpathia rarely gets mentioned, for being a hero ship. And she deserved her own video.
Someone with literary talent should write a short story in which the positions of Californian and Carpathia are switched on that night to remember. What might have been the outcome had Carpathia been only 15-20 miles away from Titanic, and arrived before she sank. Rostron was bold and decisive and I could see him bringing Carpathia right alongside, even risking damage to his ship. But the sea was so calm I think the ships could have remained nearly touching with little difficulty. Carpathia is quite a bit lower, but no doubt many could still have scrambled down to safety. She could have launched her lifeboats, and after taking aboard those in Titanic’s boats, used the little fleet of lifeboats to rescue people in the water before they succumbed to hypothermia. Oh, Carpathia, what you would have done if only you could have! You did your very best, but the distance was simply too great. And here is yet another layer to be peeled back from the onion skin of metaphor which is the entire Titanic saga, with lessons upon lessons.
Great video. Never knew their was such a big thing involving the carpathia, the captain an crew being awarded medals and trophies Plus President Taft present Captain Rostron with such a high honor. There's been no movie or documentary (except this one). It's a shame it's all been forgotten to time.
She met her end in the line of duty, which I think is more than fitting for a heroic conclusion to her journey. Plus she stayed afloat long enough for the rest of her crew to make it off.
My great-aunt came to America on this ship, as a teenaged immigrant from Hungary. I'm happy to learn that it was relatively well-appointed for lower classed passengers.
For a time, Carpathia was under contract to transport people from Hungary, so there must be thousands of people descended from the Hungarian immigrants she safely transported. Yet another way faithful Carpathia served so many!
What a wonderful video. Not much is heard of the Carpathia. My grandfather was a crewman the night of the Titanic disaster. He was awarded $50 dollars for his efforts. I guess that was a good sum in those days. I still have a copy of the award letter. Thanks for remembering Her.
Extremely pleased to find this excellent documentary on my beautiful Carpathia. So well done, I watched it twice! I actually had a dream about Carpathia a few months ago (bound to happen when something is embedded in one’s subconscious), which sparked an interest to learn more about her. I was enamored of her many years ago when first reading about Titanic, and thanks to research like yours now appreciate her that much more. What a wonderful career she enjoyed. I certainly wish she had survived and been made a museum, but at least she died in service rather than suffering the ignominy of the scrapyard. The ship that faithfully and safely transported untold thousands and famously saved hundreds now teems with life an artificial reef. Fishy, but fitting.
I think the ship had a fitting end regarding its career. It and it’s crew we’re fighters to the bitter end. She was torpedoed twice, and was refusing to go down until the third strike, and the sinking still did not end until about 2 hours later.
I found a book, "Tramps and Ladies" at a swap meet written by Sir James Bisset. He was a Deck Officer on board the Carpathia that night and gives an excellent account of it. He started in sail and ended up as Commodore of the Cunard Line! Its very well written and covers a time and vocation that I've always been interested in.
It must have been an extraordinary time that saw seafarers know both the great days of sail and the advent of the newfangled steamers. On the subject of the Cunard and White Star shipping lines: The former's chosen names for their vessels ended in "ia" and the latter's ended in "ic". Some years ago now in a local street market i discovered (and bought for 50p) a candle-snuffer displaying the White Star emblem of RMS Olympic - the sister ship of that ill-fated liner. She became such a regular feature of Atlantic crossings over many years that she got the nickname "Old Reliable" before being broken up. Imagine what an attraction she'd be in some tourist spot these days!
Visiting a Titanic exhibition, about 15 yrs ago, Captain Rostron's Granddaughter was there, being interviewed, and signing art print 's of the Titanic, seen on her sea trials in Belfast Lough. She signed alongside the Artists signature, and limited Print Number. I had it Framed when I returned home. I often just sit and stair at it.
Thank you, Trevor. The Carpathia may be one of the world’s most famous rescue ships, but she certainly had a prestigious life and career beyond that. - Sam
My grandfather served with Company D, 314th Engineers, 89th Division, American Expeditionary Force and was taken to Europe aboard the troopship RMS Carpathia in early 1918.
I absolutely love finding these new smaller channels that talk about building and shipping disasters, but I'm always upset when I realize they're so new/small/part-time that they only have around 20 videos which I consume in about two hours while working lol keep up the great work!
"Carpathia" Titanic's hero, saved the 705 passengers and crew when Titanic sank. Went out on wartime duty's during W.W.1. attacked and sunk by a German U boat, U55
Usually it took 1 good torpedo hit to take out a WW1 era liner or frieghter. The fact that it took 3 to sink the Carpathia means 2 other ships lived during that U-boat's operation.
Are you talking about Carpathia’s sisters (2 other ships). The Ivernia was actually sunk a year and a half before the Carpathia (January 1917) off the Coast of Greece. You won’t believe this as well, Captain Turner (Lusitania’s Captain) would end up surviving thr Ivernia.
@@StunningHistory Yes, these ships are a very important part of human history and the history of transport. I am in love with Olympic class ships, I dream of being on such a ship. I am from Bulgaria and we are also part of the history of the Titanic. more than 30 Bulgarians were on board, it is even estimated that there were about 50. Most of them died because they were poor and mostly because they were mostly men. I have a friend whose great-grandparents had a ticket for the Titanic, but never boarded ... I still don't know why, maybe not enough money to survive on the new continent.
I once met a woman who was 7 on the Carpathia the night they rescued the Titanic survivors . She remembered it vividly. She remembered what she was wearing and what she had for lunch that day. Her mother had a premonition of a boat sinking and made her wear warm clothes and a life vest all day. But it was the Titanic her mother had the premonition of but didn't realize it until the survivors materialized.
I read somewhere that at some point Cunard entered into a contract to almost exclusively transport Hungarians for a time. I’ll bet there are thousands upon thousands of descendants from the men and women from Hungary safely brought here by Carpathia. Just another example of the great work completed by the faithful Carpathia.
Watched all your videos. I love what you have done so far in a short time. Hope you able to produce more videos ! You have done so many respectful videos and just the knowledge you have along with your delivery keeps me engaged.
@@StunningHistory Oh yes ! I found some deckplans said to be of the Titanic. Only they were of the Olympic ! The layout of the cabins and suites were slightly different. Somebody had penciled in his cabin. Close to one of the 50 feet long balcony suites on the port side. (Of the C deck, I think). His cabin was next to the purser's office.
Crazy to think this was a normal passenger ship that went to saving many lives from the titanic then went on to serve in WWI for the allies only to be sunk by a German U-boat, mad respect for those crew members
Watched Titanic last night with my 15 year old daughter. She had a ton of questions afterwards (which is cool) and I knew a lot of the answers but, one that came up was "What happened to the ship that saved everyone?" That...I did not know. Thank you for the great video.
Her story SHOULD be told in a feature film. I think it would be fascinating. Her story is part of both Edwardian & WWI history. I'd personally ❤️ to see the story told; with the Titanic (for a HUGE change) being only a tangential piece of the story. Rostron could EASILY be portrayed by Scottish actor Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, The Full Monty, 28 Weeks Later) who I ❤️. At least, he's my vote to fill the role. He even looks a bit like him.
I only learned about two years ago that the Carpathia had been sunk during World War 1, and it made me really sad. The ship deserved better, though even if she didn't, I suppose she would have just eventually been broken up for scrap
Yes in deed built at Wallsend on Tyne by Swan Hunters & Wigham Richardson. The first 4 Funnel Mauritania as you mention was built there too. Tyne & Wear Museum service produced a pair of booklets about both ship in the eighties. Carpathia' being called Tyne to the Titanic. Not sure if they are still in print, if not you'll like as not be able to get them on eBay or Amazon.....
Greetings from the Ohio Porters.🇺🇸 Quite a unique tribute to the Carpathia and Titanic! I’ve always been infatuated by both of those ships. Such loss of life and history! Beautiful legacy in spite of the tragedy of both of these fine ships. 😎🥰✌️
