RMS Carpathia

	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
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	Torpedoed and sunk on 17 July 1918
Notes	Rescued 712 survivors 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	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) (service)
Capacity	1,800 passengers:; 1st-class: 100; 2nd-class: 200; 3rd-class: 1,500;

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

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. Carpathia navigated the ice fields to arrive two hours after Titanic had sunk, and the crew rescued 705 survivors from the ship's lifeboats.

Carpathia was sunk during the First World War 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 Central European mountain range, the Carpathians.^[2]

^ "RMS Carpathia (1903)". Tyne Built Ships. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
^ Ludowyke, Jay (2018). Carpathia: The Extraordinary Story of the Ship that Rescued the Survivors of the Titanic. Sydney, NSW: Hachette. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-0-7336-4067-4. OCLC 1024080123.

[1] "RMS Carpathia (1903)". Tyne Built Ships. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

[2] Ludowyke, Jay (2018). Carpathia: The Extraordinary Story of the Ship that Rescued the Survivors of the Titanic. Sydney, NSW: Hachette. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-0-7336-4067-4. OCLC 1024080123.

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