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7:00 pm

The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the Titanic Society 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 2016 in North America.

Responding to Titanic’s distress calls in the early hours of April 15, 1912, 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 participated in the Allied invasion of Gallipoli and commanded Cunard’s legendary passenger

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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, 2021
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 1887 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 torn 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 vessel aground, only being stopped when Rostron dropped anchor. Rostron had to face an imp
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Arthur Rostron

British merchant seaman (1869–1940)

Sir Arthur Rostron


KBE, RD

Capt. A.H. Rostron while master of Carpathia in April 1912, at the time of rescuing Titanic survivors.

Birth nameArthur Henry Rostron
Born(1869-05-14)14 May 1869
Bolton, England, UK
Died4 November 1940(1940-11-04) (aged 71)
Chippenham, England, UK
Buried

West End Parish Church, Southampton, England, UK

Allegiance United Kingdom
Service / branchRoyal Navy Reserve
Years of service1886–1931 (British Merchant Navy)
1893–1924 (Royal Naval Reserve)
RankCaptain – RNR
Commodore – Cunard
CommandsRMS Pannonia
RMS Carpathia
RMS Carmania
RMS Lusitania
RMS Campania
RMS Aurania
RMS Mauretania
RMS Andania
RMS Saxonia
RMS Berengaria
Known forRescuing survivors from the RMS Titanic
Battles / warsWorld War I
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve
Mentioned in Dispatches
Congressional Gold

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