Carpathia Saves Titanic Passengers
News April 16, 1912
Carpathia Prevents Tragedy
The RMS Titanic, a passenger liner making her maiden voyage, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg. The Titanic carried 2,223 passengers yet only had enough lifeboats for 1,178 people. This could have been one of the deadliest peacetime, maritime disasters in history if it had not been for the RMS Carpathia. Fortunately, Carpathia arrived just in the nick of time. Had she arrived just minutes later, authorities said at least 1,500 people would have perished.
Titanic Begins to Sink
Titanic crew began to load women and children first into the lifeboats. Reality soon set in that there were not enough lifeboats.
Carpathia Arrives
Men who were left on board Titanic without a lifeboat cheered when they saw that Carpathia had arrived before it was too late.
Titanic Goes Down
As lifeboats rowed away Titanic disappears into the ocean.