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RMS Carpathia

Carpathia

The RMS Carpathia was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line, built in 1901. She is most famous for rescuing survivors of the sunken RMS Titanic. She was hailed by the Titanic's radio operators and was the closest ship to respond to her distress call; despite her crew pushing the engines to their maximum and achieving a record speed (for her, anyway) of 17 knots, the Carpathia arrived about 1 hour and 40 minutes after the Titanic sank. She was signaled to early on the morning of April 15, 1912 by Fifth Officer Lowe with a green flare. When the Carpathia stopped, she picked up 13 of Titanic's lifeboats, and 706 survivors. Carpathia’s captain and crew, as well as the ship herself, later received a reward from Titanic survivor Margaret Brown as thanks for their efforts.

In deleted scenes, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, Archibald Gracie, Harold Lowe and Bruce Ismay are seen among the survivors. Carpathia is last shown in the film sadly carrying her passengers past the Statue of Liberty into New York.

The RMS Carpathia sadly met her fate during the First World War (WWI) when she was sunk in 1918 by a German U-boat by getting torpedoed three times.

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  • Deleting the scene featuring a guilt stricken Bruce Ismay boarding the Carpathia is often viewed as James Cameron’s worst decision regarding the final film. When the scene was finally revealed in later disc releases, many felt the scene helped bring both the Titanic’s and Ismay’s story full circle, while also still advancing Rose’s story. Cameron did express regret over removing it, but admitted that it’s deletion was to keep his already three hour film from running longer links

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