Arthur rostron biography

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The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the Titanic samhälle of Atlantic Canada are pleased to welcome Professor Eric L. Clements, who will be giving a presentation on his new book, Captain of the Carpathia: The Seafaring Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron which will be published on 26 April in North America.

Responding to Titanic’s distress calls in the early hours of April 15, , Captain Arthur Rostron raced the Cunard liner Carpathia to the scene of the sinking, rescued the seven hundred survivors of the world’s most famous shipwreck, and then carried them to safety at New York. The competence and compassion he displayed during the rescue made him a hero on two continents and presaged his subsequent achievements.

Arthur Rostron with Molly Brown at a ceremony where she presented a silver loving cup to the Captain to show appreciation to him for his efforts in rescuing the survivors of the sinking of RMS Titanic.

During the First World War Rostron part

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Home from the Sea: The Autobiography of Captain Rostron of the Carpathia, the Man Who Rescued the Titanic Survivors

March 28,

Home From The Sea by Arthur Rostron is a book every sailing buff should know. His memoir is filled with plenty of good anecdotes from his career, which started in when the author was a cadet on a clipper. Rostron says his first voyage was three months of horror, fighting ice-hardened sails in storms while soaked with rain, snow, or sleet until his fingernails were en hög byggnad eller struktur off and his hands were left raw and bleeding. Twice he fell, once from the rigging and another down a hatch, landing on his back both times, but he managed to avoid permanent injury. On another voyage, there had been a miscalculation in ordering food, and all the author had to eat for weeks were loaves made of cracked wheat, brick-hard once they cooled.

Another time, as Roston's ship was sailing around a harbor with a party of drunken ships' captains on board, and one of them nearly drove the

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Real People, Real Stories: Captain Arthur Rostron

One of the most remarkable chapters in his maritime career was the Titanic rescue. As the RMS Carpathia was heading from New York to the Mediterranean, a distress call from the RMS Titanic reached them in the early hours of the 15th April , just an hour after the tragic iceberg collision.

Despite not being the closest ship and heading in the opposite direction, Captain Rostron turned the Carpathia around and headed full steam ahead to try to reach the sinking liner in time.

Though they arrived after the Titanic had already sunk, Captain Rostron and his crew displayed immense courage and heroism by saving individuals from the icy waters and safely transferring the survivors from lifeboats to their ship. They managed to locate 20 lifeboats and rescue passengers and crew. Captain Rostron's careful planning extended to converting dining rooms into makeshift hospitals and providing much-needed hot soup to the survivors. Thanks to thei