#carpathia

The ship in this edit is the Carpathia, the ship that rescued survivors of the Titanic. After receiving the distress call, the crew pushed her beyond her limits, getting there faster than it was thought possible, severely damaging the engines and risking the lives of engineers, one of whom allegedly put a hat over a steam gauge to hide the alarming numbers. The other passengers vacated rooms, preparing space for the survivors. The head chef directed the kitchens to make enough food for 2000+ people, ready to feed all the passengers of the Titanic.

But by the time they got there, even pushing themselves to the brink of destruction, there were only 712 left to save.

In the episode covering The Carpathia carrying the survivors to New York, we discuss what options were presented to Ismay by White Star, the company that owned and operated Titanic, to get the survivors on dry land quickly so they could begin recovery from their ordeal.

One of the suggestions White Star put forward was to send Titanic's identical twin sister ship, the Olympic, to pick them up and finish the journey as planned.

Ismay is reported to have physically recoiled at this suggestion, unable to even fathom what suffering would occur through doing something so cruel to the group of 700 souls who were already mostly maddened by what Just Happened. Loading them back into the lifeboats to ferry onto a ship that Looks Exactly The Same as the one their families just died on? WHAT??

But MAN that sure sounds like somethin Vault Tech would do as one of their experiments

Anywhoozit, here's a link for those who want it