rmscarpathia

This photo bears a date, seen in reverse on the right of the upper margin. It clearly says 4-12, though the year is hard to read. Given that Carpathia and her captain A. H. Rostron (whose name appears on other photos in this series) were awarded the trophy for rescuing survivors of RMS Titanic on 4/10/1912, it seems likely that the date for the photo should read 4-12-12.

The Carpathia actually arrived on the scene of the Titanic sinking on the morning of 15-April,1912.Titanic struck the berg at approximately 11:40 P.M. Sunday Night,and sank at 2:20 A.M. on the morning of the 15th(2 hours and 20 minutes after the collision).It was just before dawn that The Carpathia arrived.

skip knight: Thanks. We will include more information in our description to link this to the other records in the Carpathia group.

Anne (LOC P&P) I love everything about the Titanic Story, especially how Capt. Rostron risked his own ship and crew to race almost 60 miles across a calm, but dangerous ocean at speeds unheard of while California, less than 20 miles away stood by and did nothing. Of course, there is more to that story than I can mention here.

is this a real picture?... to me the boat and the people on it look somehow hand made...

Yes its real. You have to remember that the Carpathia was In very frigid waters. The captain of of the Carpathia didn't have any heating systems on because the steam was needed to get to the Titanic. You are looking at a condensation blur. The film was glass. Then there is the breath of the person taking to picture. You can see the breath on the top of the picture. Looks like fog.

If you enlarge it, it actually looks like someone sketched in features on some of the faces and outlined other parts. It also looks like their is a fingerprint on the image, center, bottom

Looks like someone retouch the picture using a pen or something over vanished parts drawing the shadows.

Looks retouched to me too. No big deal. It porbably had to be printed in a newspaper or magazine with a photo printing process without today's definition - so they needed to outline the important parts.

The gentleman pictured fourth from the left (to the right of Captain Rostron) is James Gordon Patridge Bisset, Second Officer of the SS Carpathia. Bisset would go on to become Master of both Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth during World War II. He was later named Commodore of the Cunard Line and was knighted in the 1940s.

Rikkma: Thanks for the additional information. We will add Bisset's name to the record next time we update.