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Carpathia's Rescue Mission (2895 words)
Carpathia's official top speed was 14 knots, her engines were about nine years old and a top of 15 knots might have been possible.
In the absence of Carpathia's log it is not possible to deduce her original course.
The great mystery of Carpathia's ship is that none of her crew later appeared to tell of sighting the Cunarder rushing through the night, firing a mixture of socket signals and Roman candles.
Carpathia (1447 words)
For his rescue work in the Carpathia Rostron was awarded a silver cup and gold medal by survivors, the presentation was made by the campaigner and activist Molly Brown.
She was never converted into a troopship although she had been designed to enable conversion to carry up 3000 officers and troops with 1000 tons of stores, or 1000 officers and men when transporting cavalry.
On 17 July 1918 the Carpathia was travelling in a convoy, bound for Boston, when she was struck by two torpedoes some 120 miles west off Fastnet, Southern Ireland.
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