Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD (14 May 1869 – 4 November 1940) was a British merchant seaman and a seagoing officer for the Cunard Line. [1] He is best known as the captain of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia, when it rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic after the ship sank in 1912 in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. [1]

Captain Arthur Henry Rostron was born at Astley Bridge, Bolton, Lancashire, England, on 14 May 1869, the son of James and Nancy Rostron. He was educated at the Astley Bridge High School. At the age of 13 he went to sea joining the Naval training ship Conway .

He was a former captain of the old Mauretania when she established some of her speed records, and gained international fame, when master of the Carpathia, for that ship's rescue of more than 700 persons from the Titanic. Sir Arthur was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, on May 14, 1869, the son of James and Nancy Rostron.

2021年4月2日 · Captain Arthur Rostron, Bolton’s most famous mariner was born in Astley Bridge, May 1869. Having been educated at Bolton Grammar School he went on to join the Merchant Navy Cadet School ship HMS Conway.

The Master of the Brescia was Captain Arthur H. Rostron, who had now attained his first command in the Cunard service at forty years of age. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1869, he had served his time in sailing ships around Cape Horn and had been First Mate of a clipper ship, Cedric the Saxon.

2019年6月20日 · Arthur Henry Rostron was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1869. At 17, he served as a cadet aboard the training vessel HMS Conway. He then spent the next 9 years at sea gaining valuable experience aboard various sailing vessels and …

There is a temptation among some maritime historians to anticipate events and overplay the regard in which Arthur Rostron was held within Cunard before April 1912, but what is unquestionable is that he was a conscientious officer who was …

Born in 1869 in Bolton, Captain Arthur Henry Rostron was a British Sailor and a Seagoing Officer. He is best known for his role as the Captain of the RMS Carpathia when it rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic after the ship sank in 1912.

Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, K.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., for many years Commodore of the Cunard Fleet and one of the most famous of the commanders of the Mauretania, died at the Cottage Hospital, Chippenham, on Monday, after a short illness. Arthur Henry Rostron was born in 1869, and was educated at Bolton High

Arthur Henry Rostron of the Carpathia —were identified and celebrated by the press. Others—notably Ismay, who had found space in a lifeboat and survived—were vilified. There was a strong desire to explain the disaster, and inquiries into the sinking were held in …