Carpathia (Cunard Line)
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:01 am
Builder: Swan Hunter Ltd, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
Completed: February 1903.
Gross tonnage: 13603.
Dimensions: 558ft x 64ft. Depth 41ft.
Engines: Two four-cylinder quadruple expansion. Screws: Twin.
Watertight bulkheads: Eight.
Decks: Three.
Normal speed : 14 knots.
Passenger accommodation: 204 cabin and 1500 third class.
Maiden voyage: Liverpool–Queenstown-¬Boston on May 5, 1903.
Engaged in the Liverpool–Queenstown–New York run until March 5, 1904, when she entered into the Mediterranean trade from New York for a few voyages and also maintaining some voyages to New York from Liverpool.
By September 1905 she was scheduled almost entirely in the New York – Funchal – Gibraltar – Naples – Palermo –Messina–Trieste–Fiume service with occasional calls at the Azores and Lisbon.
Reallocated back to her original service from Liverpool to New York in July 1915.
The Carpathia attained great fame for herself and her master, Captain Rostron when she answered the White Star Liner Titanic's distress calls on April 14, 1912, after she had collided with an iceberg at 11.40pm off the banks of Newfoundland on her maiden voyage from Southamp¬ton to New York. The Titanic had reported she was sinking by the head when the Carpathia sailing for the Mediterranean picked up the SOS and altered her course and ran for the scene where she arrived at about 4am on the following morning. Carpathia rescued the remaining 705 survivors of the 2208 on board that fateful night when the Titanic went down at 2.20am in latitude 41 46', longitude 50 14'. The Carpathia herself met with a similar fate when she was hit by three torpedoes 170 miles from Bishop Rock on July 17, 1918. Five men were lost when the torpedoes struck, trapping them in the boiler room.
Bahamas SG MS1078.
North atlantic Passenger Liners since 1900 by Nicholas T Cairis
Completed: February 1903.
Gross tonnage: 13603.
Dimensions: 558ft x 64ft. Depth 41ft.
Engines: Two four-cylinder quadruple expansion. Screws: Twin.
Watertight bulkheads: Eight.
Decks: Three.
Normal speed : 14 knots.
Passenger accommodation: 204 cabin and 1500 third class.
Maiden voyage: Liverpool–Queenstown-¬Boston on May 5, 1903.
Engaged in the Liverpool–Queenstown–New York run until March 5, 1904, when she entered into the Mediterranean trade from New York for a few voyages and also maintaining some voyages to New York from Liverpool.
By September 1905 she was scheduled almost entirely in the New York – Funchal – Gibraltar – Naples – Palermo –Messina–Trieste–Fiume service with occasional calls at the Azores and Lisbon.
Reallocated back to her original service from Liverpool to New York in July 1915.
The Carpathia attained great fame for herself and her master, Captain Rostron when she answered the White Star Liner Titanic's distress calls on April 14, 1912, after she had collided with an iceberg at 11.40pm off the banks of Newfoundland on her maiden voyage from Southamp¬ton to New York. The Titanic had reported she was sinking by the head when the Carpathia sailing for the Mediterranean picked up the SOS and altered her course and ran for the scene where she arrived at about 4am on the following morning. Carpathia rescued the remaining 705 survivors of the 2208 on board that fateful night when the Titanic went down at 2.20am in latitude 41 46', longitude 50 14'. The Carpathia herself met with a similar fate when she was hit by three torpedoes 170 miles from Bishop Rock on July 17, 1918. Five men were lost when the torpedoes struck, trapping them in the boiler room.
Bahamas SG MS1078.
North atlantic Passenger Liners since 1900 by Nicholas T Cairis