R.M.S. CARPATHIA: The Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlan...

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£2,500 - £3,500

R.M.S. CARPATHIA: The Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson in Wallsend, Liverpool, Tyne and Wear in England in 1903. She is best known as the ship which rescued all of Titanic's survivors. In the early morning of 15th April, 1912 the Carpathia's radio operator, Harold Cottam, received a message from Titanic that it had struck an iceberg. After bringing the message to the ship's master, Captain Arthur Rostron, Rostron took immediate steps to steam to Titanic's reported position calling on additional stokers to make all possible speed. He ordered the ship's heating and hot water cut off to provide as much steam as possible to the engines. After navigating around an ice field, Carpathia reached Titanic's position at about 4:00am, a little more than an hour and a half after Titanic went down. Carpathia arrived in New York on 18th April, 1912 where Titanic's survivors disembarked and the Carpathia resumed its regular voyage to the Mediterranean.
After being pressed into service during World War I by the British Admiralty, Carpathia was sunk on 17th July, 1918 by three torpedoes fired by U-55 of the German Imperial Navy around 120 miles west of Fastnet. Cunard Line, maiden voyage May 5, 1903; sunk July 15, 1918. This lot offered is a large piece of coal, on average a Cunard Line ocean liner would use 1,050 tons of coal per day. Approx. 8ins. x 6ins. x 2ins.
This piece was recovered on August 25, 2007, dive six, by the Achilles rover at lat. 49º 22.055' N, long. 10º 41.698' W by an ROV basket. Accession number 07/0015. A conservation/condition report and certificate of authenticity will accompany this lot. Provenance: May 2001, Premier Exhibitions, Inc. acquired ownership of the wreck of the Carpathia, which was sunk by a German torpedo during World War I off the coast of Ireland and recovered in August 2007, please note the artefact has been professionally conserved; marine encrustations; overall iron staining and visible striations. Approx. 12ins. x 5ins. x 2.75ins.
This piece was recovered on August 25, 2007, dive six, by the Achilles rover at lat. 49º 22.055' N, long. 10º 41.698' W by an ROV basket. Accession number 07/0039. A copy of the certificate of authenticity will accompany this lot. Provenance: May 2001, Premier Exhibitions, Inc. acquired ownership of the wreck of the Carpathia, which was sunk by a German torpedo during World War I off the coast of Ireland and recovered in August 2007, please note the artefact has been professionally conserved; marine encrustations; overall iron staining and visible striations.