Wow. mylordshesacactus posted this account of the true story of the Carpathia and her response to the Titanic’s distress call. It’s a truly amazing historical story and there should be a movie about this as well. The RMS Carpathia was a transatlantic passenger steamship who made her maiden voyage in 1903. In April 1912, she became famous for rescuing survivors from the infamous RMS Titanic after she struck an iceberg and sank. This sadly resulted in a loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 lives in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Carpathia navigated the ice fields to arrive two hours after the Titanic had sunk, and the crew rescued 705 survivors from the ship’s lifeboats. No other ship would find survivors. While the Carpathia didn’t save the Titanic, the full story of their valiant efforts is inspiring and worth remembering.
“Icebergs loomed up and fell astern and we never slackened. It was an anxious time with the Titanic’s fateful experience very close in our minds.” -Captain Arthur H Rostron, Commander of the Carpathia (recounting the Carpathia’s desperate journey to the site of the sinking)
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I canna’ change the laws of physics! I dannae’ if she can take any more, captain!
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?–TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out.
Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature–a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.
Robert Heinlein “Starship Troopers”
Talmud (Sanhedrin 37a) can be translated as: “Whoever saves a single life is considered by scripture to have saved the world.”