RMS Carpathia

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

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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.