Right I have actually had enough.

So many of you probably know, between the late night of April 14^th and the early morning of April 15^th 1912 the Titanic struck an iceburg on her starboard side and would succumb to the waves of the icy atlantic.

Many of you also know that the RMS Carpathia sped through the night to reach the Titanic's location risking herself and her passengers.

However what many of you won't know is that the Carpathia was travelling at around 20 miles per hour in order to reach the Titanic which took her three and a half hours and she helped rescue between 700 and 712 people, which meant that between 1512 and 1524 people died that night.

Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying that the Carpathia is at fault for those deaths in fact I'm saying that thanks to the Carpathia more people survived than there would have without it and I'll talk about some of what the Carpathia did that night:

The Captian of the Carpathia, Arthur Henry Rostron, ordered the cooks to stop preparing the next days breakfast in favour of making soup and bread for the surviors.
The heating and hot water was turned off so all the coal burned was going to the power for the marconi machine and the ships speed.
Steerage passengers of the Carpathia moved out of their rooms and into other passengers rooms to free up beds for the surviviors.
First class passengers also gathered up their spare clothes and blankets to give to the surviors.
Dinning rooms and the First Class lounge on the Carpathia were turned into makeshift hospitals for the surviors.
The Carpathia's wireless operator had stayed awake for 36 hours before collapsing from exhaustion sending out messages.
Passengers also voluntered to look out for the Titanic and set off rockets.
In the boiler room the trimmers shovelled coal tirelessly and one engineer took off his cap to cover the pressure gauge where the needle was flicking wildly in the red.
This put immense strain on the ship whos cabins were shaking so much books fell from shelves and door frames and floorboards creaked under the strain of the ship, which was causing permanently damaging the ship.

Now many of you may be thinking that the Carpathia was the Titanic's only hope or at least the best chance of survival, but you'd be wrong because 20 miles away, or an hour away by Carpathia's speed, was another ship:

The SS Californian

The Californian was so close to the Titanic that the Third Officer and the Captian watched as the Titanic hit the iceberg and come to a stop however the wireless operator had went to bed turned off the marconi machine and so they didn't receive any messages. As well as that many passengers on board the Titanic could see the Californian in the distance.

When the lights on the Titanic dimmed and she came to a stop the Third officer assumed that it was a trick to encourage Titanic passengers to go to bed so the crew could clock off.

When the crew began to signal with lights the Third Officer assumed it was the bobbing of the ships masthead in the waves, and when the Titanic set off distress fireworks they assumed it was a fireworks display to celebrate the maiden voyage.

All in all the crew of the Californian just watched her sink.

Had the Californian did anything it is likely that hundreds more, if not all of the people aboard the Titanic could have been saved.

What makes this all worse is that during the evacuation third class passengers where assembled in the dining room of the Titanic and told that they would be called up in groups of 50. However, only three groups were caled berfore the crew became distracted and left them.

Lastly I'll leave you with a quote:

I had never seen so many shooting stars... I recalled a legend that every time there's a shooting star, sombody dies. - Jean Hippach, 1^st class survivor.