I love how, Harold, didn't yell at the officer's when they laughed at him, he just rushed to the captains cabin and told him right away. Also kudos to, Captain Arthur, for not snapping at, Harold, when he woke him up brutally

Carpathia deserves her own full length feature film. That's such a wild story.

The story of the Carpathia going to the rescue is a fascinating and interesting one. This could make a good movie of itself.

Not gonna lie, but I think Ismay was right in suggesting that the Olympic not take the survivors, that would be even more traumatic. The people would think either they are seeing a ghost or have false hope that it was some weird bad dream. This was great, thanks for posting!

its kind of a miracle that the carpathia even found the life boats, i feel like it would have been like finding a needle in a haystack

When asked about the risks he took running Carpathia through the ice field at high speed at night, Captain Rostron is said to have replied "I can only conclude another hand than mine was on the helm.".

C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an iceberg field is approximately 3,720 to 1. Carpathia Captain: Never tell me the odds.

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the sinking of the Costa Concordia. RIP to the 32 people who died that horrible night.

I don't have any knowledge of ships or anything and I have never been that much interested in Titanic BUT for some reason the moment Rostrom' says 'tell Titanic we are coming as fast as possible' it makes me so emotional same with his statement when he ordered to 'shoot fireworks every 15 mins to give the survivors support and hope that help is on its way' these two orders for some reason makes me wanna cry for the efforts that amazing captain and the ship made to help a ship that was (as far as I know) belonged to a rival ship line! Both the ship and the captain are true heroes ♡

Harold Cottam must have searched for his friend Jack Philips amongst the survivor’s. How incredibly sad.

Carpathia should have it's own movie. Cuz it is the most famous rescue ship so i think it should have it's own movie

The efforts the Carpathia captain made to get there was unbelievable. He is either extremely brave or a fool over pressurizing the boilers. That one fact was new to me. TYVM for the 411.

The film A Night To Remember did a fantastic job portraying Carpathia's roll during the Titanic disaster. One of the few things the Cameron film didn't feature in his film.

As others have already mentioned, the story of the Carpathia, her crew and passengers, as they went to assist the Titanic, would make a really good movie. We live in an age where TV tells us that crimes are solved in an hour, the good guys make the right decisions and usually win in the end. Real life is not so simple or black and white. In the real world, sometimes all you can do is calculate the risks and make the best choice you can. What was on the Captains mind as they headed to Titanic? What if a boiler blew out? They struck an iceberg? If in the attempt to rescue, his own ship, crew, and passengers were at risk? Yet, doing nothing was not an option either. I’d love a movie that explored the human emotions and thoughts of those involved. I think it would be a really good topic for classroom discussions, exploring and debating the actions that occurred.

So many things could have gone wrong, its amazing how the Carpathia managed get there so fast and intact. God bless the Carpathia.

Captain Rostrom’s response to Cottham was recorded as, ‘Tell him that we are coming along as quickly as we can.’ I’ve always thought that is one of the most dramatic and understated instructions in maritime history. Thank you for a very well researched video and for not having a go at Californian.

That scenic image of the titanic in complete darkness except for the lights, shows what it really looked like. The area around the titanic wasn't brightly illuminated like in the 1998 Movie. It was very dark. They barely could even see the giant white iceberg which is why they hit it. Even if you were lucky enough to get into a lifeboat...by the time the titanic really started down fast all of the lights went out and everyone was in near pitch darkness minus the dim illumination of the stars/moon. Frightening to say the least

I'm so glad you said how the Carpathia handled it. This is the first time I have ever heard anyone doing a video on this.

I have to give Capt. Rostron, the preparations he ordered (this is when there were No Instructions for at sea rescues) were basically recommended by the Boards of Inquiry, word for word, to become the Written Instructions for How To Conduct A Rescue At Sea!!!

Two héros on the Carpathia. The wireless operator who decided to check one more time before shutting down for the night. And, of course, the Captain Rostron who reacted immediately.

There are a number of ships involved that night that aren't recognised enough. The first is SS Mount Temple which, while too far away to save Titanic (about 70 miles compared to Carpathia's 58), still made a valiant effort to reach the stricken liner, her rescue mission brought to a stop only when she ran into the dense ice field surrounding Titanic. She reached Titanic's last reported position at 4:30am, yet found no sign of the ship or her occupants. Her captain calculated that Titanic had actually sank 8 miles further east and arrived at the correct location at 6am, just in time to see Carpathia taking the survivors onboard. The second is Frankfurt, which historians believe was only 20 miles away from Titanic, her captain stating that he would arrive by 2am, well before Carpathia and saving the lives of those who died of exposure. Despite Phillips' belief that Frankfurt was close enough to render aid, he rudely dismissed the vessel when it asked for clarification on the vague message he had sent. (Despite popular belief, CQ D was not a distress call. Phillips was simply telling all ships in the area that he needed aid without actually stating what was wrong with his vessel) Why Phillips ignored a ship he believed to be close enough to help him in favour of communicating with ships too far away to be of any use is a mystery in itself. Despite this, Frankfurt's crew were not called upon to give evidence which might have cleared things up. Another was the liner Birma, which Carpathia sternly refused aid from simply because she didn't carry a Marconi wireless set. (Yes, Marconi's rivalry with other firms was so bitter that their employees often refused to provide aid to any vessel that used rival technology) This meant that Birma's minor yet crucial role in the disaster went largely unnoticed for over 70 years. The British inquiry ignored the evidence from both Mount Temple and Birma (both of which reached Titanic's supposed location, only to find Carpathia rescuing survivors miles to the north-east) that clearly showed that Titanic had broadcast a wildly inaccurate location, instead insisting that Californian was mistaken in where she was. It wasn't until 1990 that Birma's logs exonerated Californian from the stitch up the British inquiry had created.

I wish there was a movie specifically based on THIS side of the story.

Hey, I am a huge Titanic and Carpathia historian and you are the whole reason I started to get interested in it. I just hope you keep making these amazing videos.

Let's be honest here. Being a radio operator on any nearby ships would be have been really intense that night.

Absolutely brilliant video from start to finish. Just imagine how horrific things could have been if Captain Rostron hadn't believed Cottam, and Cottam had just spent the rest of the night listening to people die?

First rescue ship to reach the RMS Titanic . The Carpathia Rescued all the passengers in life boats, from the RMS Titanic.Captain Ralston of the Carpathia and The wireless Operator were very much instrumental in the rescue of the passengers of the RMS Titanic.

Captain Rostron was a brave man and a great sailor.

Sounds like the man with flares is one of the biggest heros...given the Carpathia wasn't even given the correct location of where they were.

Anyone else feel like the Titanic is perpetually showing a sad face when you see pictures of the her underwater? I realize it’s due to the slumping of the bow on the seabed and how it impacted and deteriorated over time, however it just looks very sad. The stern as well due to the implosion it suffered, looks defeated. Really sad to see arguably the greatest ship ever made (mostly due to its tragic story) never complete her service the way she was intended to. Interestingly sad personification, I guess she also feels sad with her short career.

As a naval history nerd I know a bit about how ships of that era worked; boilers and engines for naval applications were built robustly with a decent margin for safety. Using arbitrary numbers, a ship's boiler designed to handle 200psi would have a safety margin of 10-20% where you could over pressure the boiler with out any damage or risk of catastrophic failure for limited amounts of time (basically your not cruising around in that margin all day). It was also the same with the engines they also had a margin of safety built into them. So the Carpathia's captain didn't really take that large of a risk provided he did not disable the safety valves on the engines and boilers that would open if the pressure exceeded the pre-built margin of saftey.

"WHY DID YOU BREAK IN?! HAVENT YOU HEARD OF-" "TITANIC IS SINKING"

So glad I found your channel. I learn a lot more about the Titanic from you than anyone else other than Cameron himself. Love the outgoing attitude you have cause it makes the videos enjoyable to watch and listen to.

That audio clip gave me chills listening to it. Great video as always.

Sam I want to Thank you for doing your best with all the videos on the Titanic

What a night to remember for all the survivors and the Carphathia crew

The optical illusion saved a lot of lives, also the guy that said no to the olympic definitely made a good call considering he must’ve been just as shaken up as all the other survivors

If I'm rich enough to own my own ship I will call her Carpathia. Such a badass name for a ship.

Aloha, wonderful research and presentation. The Titanic must have turned into PANIC CITY once the majority of it’s passengers finally realized that the Titanic was not unsinkable. It’s eerie strange that so many of the life boats were not even filled to capacity. Passengers were not aware of the severity of the ship’s damages. Such a tragedy. R.I.P. all who went down.

Yes I loved this story and learning so much more. Thank you! When april comes I always think of the Titantic so thanks!

I have to let you know Iv been listening to you videos and I find them very informative, interesting, and enjoyable. You really have the facts down. Your inthusiazim is evident in you delivery of the narrative. Great job hope your still at it. You are exemplary with your wealth of details.

Hey Sam, thanks for all the videos! I really enjoy them!

Discovered this channel a month ago and I’m blown away by your knowledge of the titanic. Really interesting videos

Thank you for the video, old man

Awesome video! Thank you for the explanations ! ⚓️

Thank you well presented...I never ever know this until now...I will be definitely looking at your other videos.

When I heard “this is the Olympic” on the Marconi radio it sent chills, I have no idea why.

Thank you! I've been a Titanic enthusiast since I was a kid, but you rarely Ever hear anything about the Carpathia. Thank you for this. :-)

Amazing Series Sam! See you at your stream!

Greetings, Absolutely stellar production. Excellent research and great delivery. Have been doing a lot of research about the Carpathia of late and have amassed a lot of specifications and early history from maiden voyage on. But you gave me more tidbits of info that I did not have. This and the video of The Titanic in Her Own Words are the two best productions about the disaster yet. Yours for a yeoman's job with research and the narrative, and "In Her Own Words" for the ingenious and novel POV of that terrible night. I cried when I first heard it. Thank you both for your fine efforts!! PS: My grandmother (she was about 2-1/2 years old at the time) traveled to the New World on Carpathia in 1908 with her older sister, brother, and mother. Their father had come to the States a year earlier to settle in East Saint Louis before sending for his family to leave Hungary. So my family has a very loose connection to these great ships.

Thank you for all information you’ve had collected to understand why Titanic sank how that tragic happened was very thoughtful I still looking for other video.

This guy has some quality skills of analysis and narration... Wish you success

Great video Sam. I always enjoy your content. I hope that you will do a video about the USS Indianapolis soon, Thank you

This video is very informative, and interesting too. When one begins to think about the tragedy, one at times forgets the great adavances in technology that have occurred since then, and this video reminds one it was 1912, and even radio with spoken words did not exist. One had to understand the Morse Code to know what the messages sent by the ships said. The fact the Carpathia raced at over its rated speed to the scene, probably saved many passengers who would have died of hypothermia.

I'm a new subscriber to the channel. I think your videos are brilliant and very detailed. Excellent job. Love from Scotland.

Fabulous story, thank you

Carpathia deserves her own movie

This video was so very informative and interesting.....such a good history lesson, teaching things l had never heard before....thanks for sharing your stories with us and please tell us more.

Well done! Good presentation.

Excellent thorough essay on this subject. It would've been so traumatic for the survivors to board the Olympic. A surreal moment.

These vids are awesome 👏

you are the best history teacher.

19:36 throw in a beat and those radio messages would go hard

Well done. I learned a lot.

Awesome video!

Good work Sam 👏

Your videos are really awesome 😺❤

Great job thanks

Nice video, thanks.

Keep up the great work please! 😁👏🏻

You did really well at telling this story

I love these videos

You do such a great job on these videos! I feel like I learned so much when I watch them. Do you have a new fan from New York.

Hi Sam I really like your channel I’ve watched all your vid in one late night sitting lol. 👍

8:35 Harold had another big clue that it was really the Titanic that was sending the call for help: MGY, the brand new Marconi station on Titanic, was using very new, much improved equipment, the newly designed 5kW synchronous rotary spark transmitter. Not even the Olympic, the flagship of the class, had such a modern marvel. And this transmitter sounded differently than pretty much every other station in wireless range. From what i can find, except maybe a couple of land based Marconi installations on land where those transmitters were developed, nobody else had access to those models at the time. And each Marconi station on the Atlantic had rough charts of time vs. distance to various ships that were updated for every trip. So if you know the pre-calculated distance to a ship and its transmitter power, an experienced operator can take a guess if the loudness he hears matches what the chart says it should be.

I'm a fairly new subscriber and I greatly admire your hard work and dedication to telling the tales of these great ships. Though sea-going liners are my first love I also enjoy tales of our land liners, the great passenger trains that crossed our country before Amtrak. One true tale that is hardly covered in video form is the 1952 incident of the snowbound streamliner, The City of San Francisco, which was trapped at the Donner Pass cut through on the old Southern Pacific railroad. It was covered in the book Snowbound Streamliner. I truly believe you would be the perfect person to turn this tale into a excellent video record for all to share on KZfaq. Thanks again for your hard work.

Happy New Year Captain Sam

Such a fan of your videos. You mention the one where you can listen fully to the radio transmission, can you post a link please? Keep them coming… 🙏

Hey Sam I was finally able to pick up my Christmas gift from one of my friends, "On A Sea Of Glass" I am so excited to dig in and read the book. Now I'll ace your quizzes and know even more about the Titanic!!!! Also the Titanic coal I got in my photo frame from the Luxor exhibit fell out some how so my husband secretly went and ordered me a larger chuck of coal. It came in a glass display case with a letter of authenticity. So cool. That's about all I'll ever own of the titanic but it is enough for me.

Very good Storyteller 👍

We need a movie on the Carpathia and her mad dash through iceberg-infested waters to each the Titanic... I would watch the hell out of this movie.

I love your videos bc even though Titanic (the movie) was great it's really cool hearing the true story. I've always been curious about what food the passengers on the Titanic ate? Like how did it differ for each class and also did they have refrigeration on board? If you'd like to make a video answering these questions that would be awesome! 😏

Hearing all those ships talking at once is like a massive Discord call at sea

Really, really interesting, thanks so much. Stevie, York, uk

Thats the difference between a good captain and a normal bridge officer

I'm new to your channel..love you Sam!

Very informative

Good job old man.

This needs a film to be made

What a fascinating story Sam very much appreciated. Never heard about the Marconi trolls...

It’s so crazy to think that the equivalent of what the captain did to the carpathias engines is the same thing as hitting NOS on a stock engine in a car. It can and should blow up by all accounts but it didn’t it’s just mind blowing.

Hello 👋 I don’t know if it’s already in the works but a history of the Carpathia would probably make for an interesting video :)

A few corrections: a larger ship (like RMS Titanic and even the RMS Carpathia & SS California) also have a white masthead light (360 degree visibility). The name for various things aboard a ship have different names depending on the country the ship is from. For instance a ship's Dynamo (British) is the exact same thing as a ship's Generator (US). Hence Navigation Lights and Running Lights are probably both correct! (Of course it could also be one was what they called them in 1912 and what they called them in 1978 when I went "Haze Gray and Underway" in the US Navy.... In 1912, Signals were not standardize, so instead of using Red Distress Rockets & Flares, RMS Titanic used White Rockets and Green Flares.... Finally, Boxhall may have used the last reported position listed in the ship's log.... Not to mention the possibility of the current moving the lifeboats! (Also, between the Navigator's sightings you do your estimates by Dead Reckoning .)

If it isn’t Devine intervention that made the Carpathia’s wireless operator turn that radio on, I don’t know what is!!

I hope they officers who laughed at Carpathia's radio guy apologized afterwards.

SS Californian to RMS Carpathia, 15 April 1912 07:00: “Have received notification of loss of Titanic and are standing by to assist, please respond.“ RMS Carpathia to SS Californian: “Message acknowledged, we are recovering survivors. Californian, please write down your message and send it to 01:00 14 April 1912 when it would’ve f*****g mattered. Thanks for nothing.” Compare and contrast the actions of Captain Rostron with that of Captain Lord. What a difference one man can make. I know it wasn’t mentioned in the video, but Californian’s radio being turned off is no excuse, they watched the rockets from Titanic and didn’t even bother to ask the radio operator to switch on the set and see what was going on.

Newark NJ rocking with you

Sam, this video is also very interesting, and i am now going to check the links below, I asked this question earlier, where any of the bodies picked up and if so by what ship, and how many, have you made a video on this? Thanks again.

Love you video's.. and I love titanic ❤️

WOW I rily learnd a lot

Very good video, nice companion to Oceanliner Designs' one.