A welcomed rescue
By 8.30am, 703 survivors were aboard Carpathia. Six of Titanic's lifeboats were hoisted up to the foredeck while seven more were carried overside. Carpathia's own boats were swung out to make space but, when this ran out, the other empty lifeboats from Titanic were set adrift.
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