The Carpathia Dodged Icebergs to Rescue SurvivorsĪ group of rescued Titanic passengers on board the Carpathia. Still, Bartlett took action and did what he could to initiate rescue efforts. "He relayed the message to Charlottetown, but by the time it was received in Halifax, they had already heard,” Charles MacNeill, vice president of the Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Station board of directors told the CBC in 2017. The station, where Bartlett lived with his wife and six children, was the first in Canada to receive a land signal from the ocean liner. distress signal transmitted from a passenger ship sinking off the coast of Newfoundland: the R.M.S. The bulk of his job involved communicating with ships and ice-breaking steamers approaching the Northumberland Strait, but during his shift on the night of April 14, 1912, he received an S.O.S. Distress Messages Were Received and Relayedįrom 1912 through 1922, Thomas Bartlett served as the operator of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station, located directly adjacent to the Cape Bear Lighthouse in Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island. Here are five examples of how the world responded to the tragedy and tried to help the roughly 2,200 people aboard the doomed ocean liner.
In addition to the aid provided by the RMS Carpathia crew, who delivered surviving Titanic passengers to New York, there was unprecedented international coordination and communication that went into the rescue and relief effort.
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