вЂњI guess there are lots of them still able to smoke,вЂќ began a man, and then stopped. Other lighted cigars glowed in the mass of humanity on the boat. In the outer darkness, no one countenance was distinctly visible. Solid rows of faces could be seen moving past the open as the Carpathia was warped into her berth. A man smoking a cigar aboard - вЂњTheyвЂ™re smoking!вЂќ half shrieked a woman who had stood waiting, motionless for three long hours. Then the white bow of the Cunarder glided past. The chugging of a tugboat sounded from out in the North River.ДЄ mast moved silently by. Up and a down the huge Cunard pier were hundreds of men and women, standing silent, or conversing on indifferent things. The landing of the Carpathia, last seen in one of the worldвЂ™s greatest tragedies, followed - no playwrightвЂ™s rules in the staging of its drama of broken hearts.ДЄ little group of people - perhaps 300, possibly 400 was drawn in around the canopied gangplank. They were the steerage passengers, and, cared for by charitable organizations, they were taken to the city lodging house. It was well into the morning before the last of the more than seven hundred Titanic survivors left the Carpathia.

Where last night, the sobbing of strong men sounded through the darkness as they tenderly cared for the pitiful few Titanic survivors, today burly stevedores hustled bales and barrels, to fill the holds emptied when the shipвЂ™s recuse trip interrupted her voyage. Titanic rescue from 1912 вЂ“ Canvas collapsible lifeboat Titanic rescue вЂ“ Fifth Officer Lowe towing the canvas collapsible lifeboat Where last night, women, insane with horror, voiced their anguish in hideous shrieks, today, soft-footed sailormen calmly prepared the Carpathia for her interrupted Mediterranean tour, on which she will start again this afternoon. New York, April 19th - Grim, misty silence today shrouded the Carpathia, ambulance of the sea, as she lay at her dock, her work of rescue done. First photographs of scenes connected with the Titanic disasterД«abel at pier as Samaritan ship lands survivors

Titanic lifeboat photos