RMS Carpathia

The RMS Carpathia under way
History
United Kingdom
Name	RMS Carpathia
Namesake	Carpathian Mountain Range
Owner	Cunard Line
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	Transatlantic: Liverpool–Queenstown–Boston Transferred to Liverpool–Queenstown–New York summers Trieste–Fiume–New York winters
Builder	C.S. Swan & Hunter, Wallsend, England [1]
Yard number	274
Laid down	10 September 1901
Launched	6 August 1902
Completed	February 1903
Maiden voyage	5 May 1903
In service	1903–1918
Out of service	17 July 1918
Identification	UK Official Number 118014 Radio Call sign "MPA"
Fate	Sunk by three torpedoes from SM U-55 on 17 July 1918
Notes	Famous for rescuing more than 700 passengers from the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	13,603 GRT, 8,660 NRT
Length	558 ft (170 m)
Beam	64 ft 6 in (19.66 m)
Draught	34 ft 7 in (10.54 m)
Decks	7
Propulsion	2 × Wallsend Slipway Co. quadruple expansion steam engines Twin propellers
Speed	15.5 kn (17.8 mph; 28.7 km/h) (planned trial speed) 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) (service)
Capacity	1,704 passengers; after 1905, 2,550: 1st-class: 100 2nd-class: 200 3rd-class: 2,250

RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in their shipyard in Wallsend, England.

The 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. 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 and was referred to by some fans as Titanic's Hero.

The Carpathia was sunk during World War I on 17 July 1918 after being torpedoed three times by the German submarine U-55 off the southern Irish coast, with a loss of five crew members.

The name of the ship comes from the mountain range of the Carpathians in Central Europe.^[2]