Titanic Hero Rostron Sir Arthur H.
Titanic Hero Rostron Sir Arthur H. The story of the Titanic in the words of the hero whose swift action saved the lives of 710 survivors. Rostron was asleep when his wireless operator, Harold Cottam,…
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Titanic Hero Rostron Sir Arthur H.
The story of the Titanic in the words of the hero whose swift action saved the lives of 710 survivors. Rostron was asleep when his wireless operator, Harold Cottam, by chance left his headset on while undressing for bed and so heard the signal. The Carpathia was on its regular voyage to New York City, when early on 15 April 1912 it received a distress signal from the White Star Line ocean liner Titanic, which had struck an iceberg and was sinking.
Rostron immediately ordered the ship to race towards the Titanic's reported position, posting extra lookouts to help spot and manoeuvre around the ice he knew to be in the area and extracted every bit of speed the ship's engines could muster. Cottam ran to Rostron's cabin to alert him. Even so, Carpathia, travelling through dangerous ice floes, took about 3A hours to reach the Titanic's radioed position.
During this time Rostron turned off
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