Carpathia To Titanic’s Rescue
Since picking-up Titanic’s distress call, the Cunard Line’s RMS Carpathia had made an heroic all-out dash to the area where Titanic’s senior radio operator, Jack Phillips, had last radioed its position. Her captain, Arthur Rostron, had made a frantic bid to coax as much speed out of his ageing vessel as was possible, and he had ordered all of the off-duty firemen …