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RMS Carpathia
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British ocean liner known for rescuing survivors of the RMS Titanic
Key facts
- Name
- RMS Carpathia
- Namesake
- Carpathian Mountain Range
- Owner
- Cunard Line
- Operator
- Cunard Line
- Port of registry
- Liverpool , United Kingdom
- Route
- Transatlantic: Liverpool–Queenstown–Boston Transferred to Liverpool–Queenstown–New York summers Trieste–Fiume–New York winters
- Builder
- C.S. Swan & Hunter , Wallsend , England
- Laid down
- 10 September 1901
- Launched
- 6 August 1902
- Completed
- February 1903
- Maiden voyage
- 5 May 1903
- In service
- 1903–1918
- Out of service
- 17 July 1918
- Identification
- UK Official Number 118014 Radio Call sign "MPA"
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk on 17 July 1918
- Notes
- Rescued 712 survivors from the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912
- Type
- Ocean liner
- Tonnage
- 13,603 GRT , 8,660 NRT
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- shipwreck
- Named after
- Carpathians
- Operator
- White Star Line
- Manufacturer
- Swan Hunter
- Image
- RMS Carpathia.jpg
- Length
- 164.58
- Speed
- 14
- Significant event
- shipwrecking
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- Commons category
- Carpathia (ship, 1903)
- yard number
- 274
- draft
- 10.54
- call sign
- MPA
- beam
- 19.66
- location of creation
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- shipping port
- Liverpool
- country of registry
- United Kingdom
- date of official opening
- 1902-08-06
- port of registry
- Liverpool
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Encyclopedic overview
RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by C. S. Swan & Hunter in their shipyard in Wallsend, England.
Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 from Liverpool to Boston, and continued on this route before being transferred to Mediterranean service in 1904. In April 1912, she became famous for rescuing survivors of the rival White Star Line's RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Carpathia navigated the ice fields to arrive two hours after Titanic had sunk, and the crew rescued 712 survivors from the ship's lifeboats.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RMS Carpathia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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