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Captain of the Carpathia: The seafaring life of Titanic hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron
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By Eric L. Clements
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Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of 15 April , 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. After twenty-five years at sea, the competence and compassion Rostron displayed during the rescue made him a hero on two continents and presaged his subsequent achievements.
During the First World War he participated in the invasion of Gallipoli and commanded Cunard's Mauretania as a hospital ship in the Mediterranean and a troop transport in the Atlantic. As her longest-serving master he commanded that legendary vessel in transatlantic passenger service through most of the s. Rostron retired in as the most esteemed master mariner of his era, celebrated for the Titanic rescue, decorated for his war service, and knighted for his contributions to British seafaring.
This account uses newspaper reports, company records, government documents, contemporary publications and memoirs to recount Rostron's seafaring life from his first voyage as
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The sailor&#;s life: Four notable memoirs of old salts
Title: Life on the Mississippi
Author: Mark Twain ( – ), American humourist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who was a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River
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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book &#; a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it has a new story to tell every day. Throughout the long twelve hundred miles there was never a page that was void of interest, never one that you could leave unread without loss, never one that you would want to skip, thinking that you could find higher enjoyment in some other thing. (from Chapter IX: Continued Perplexities)