On the tragic night of April 14, 1912, RMS Titanic of White Star Line Company collided with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland. The only ship closest to the luxury liner was the RMS Carpathia of Cunard Line Company. Carpathia missed many of the first distress calls because its radioman was on the bridge. When it did receive the SOS signals, its Captain ordered their crew to set course for the sinking ship. With the maximum speed of 17 knots, it reached the sight at 4:00 am and rescued 705 survivors.

RMS Carpathia reached New York on the night of April 18 with the survivors. The Titanic dropped anchor and docked at Pier 54. Before unloading the survivors, the crew dropped the used and empty lifeboats at Pier 59 which was owned by White Star Line. For their valiant effort, the crew were awarded bronze medals, the officers were bestowed with silver medals and the Captain was presented with a gold medal and a silver cup by the survivors of the Titanic.

The numbers of the Titanic are very numerous and big. The passengers that could be carried totaled in 2200 passengers. Unfortunately, for the sake of the passengers, not enough lifeboats were inserted into the ships structure. That is because the engineers and the people responsible for the voyage prioritized the sea?s view.
From those 2200 passengers, about 1500 people died and only 700 passengers managed to survive. That is due to the fact that since not only there were little lifeboats aboard, but that women and children had to be seated first, it created a really extra delay in the evacuation procedure.
Most of the lifeboats were partially used in order to accommodate the first class ladies with their children more comfortably. With that despicable measure more people died and not as many that could be saved were saved. The poorer classes also suffered a really humiliation almost being locked to their death.