Carpathia Salvage

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Description

Titanic's rescue ship, the Cunard Liner RMS Carpathia, met her own fate on July 17th, 1918 when she was struck by three torpedos fired from the German U-Boat U-55.

This large partial Minton's saucer and baseball-size chunk of coal were salvaged during an assessment and exploration of Carpathia's wreckage on September 1st, 2007 by diver Carl Spencer and expedition leader Paul Henry Nargeolet.

Citation

“Carpathia Salvage,” TitanicRelics.com | A Collection of Authentic Titanic Artifacts and Memorabilia, accessed December 22, 2024, http://titanicrelics.com/items/show/55.