Karpeles Document: Titanic - Official Report / Rescue

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Description

This official report handwritten by A. St. Roshcow, Commander of the Carpathia, on April 27, 1912, documents the rescue of the Titanic survivors.

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Courtesy of the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum

The Karpeles Manuscript Library, the world’s largest private collection of important original documents and manuscripts, provided this document.

In collaboration with the Center for Applied Technologies in Education, this manuscript is equipped with an interactive tool enabling the user to view the document’s transcription, providing a 21st Century glimpse of ways students can interact with old documents and manuscripts.

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Karpeles Document: Titanic - Official Report / Rescue