Journal Entry #6

This post is about the last few chapters of A Night to Remember. After the agonizing and horrific experience of witnessing the Titanic sink, the few remaining passengers on the lifeboats were left waiting and hoping for a rescue. One passenger explained, "Over a radius of four or five miles, 18 little boats wandered about through the night or drifted together on a sea as flat as a reservoir." After a night of many brutal hours both fighting for their own survival as well as listening to the screams and cries of the passengers left behind, Titanic passengers could only wait. By mid - morning the next day, The Carpathia, after receiving a distress call from the Titanic, raced full steam ahead towards the Titanic, hoping to rescue any survivors. The ship had sped through the same ice fields that sank the Titanic, risking their own lives and crew to save others. When the ship finally came, passengers cried out tears of joy, hardly believing that they had made it out alive. The scene aboard the Carpathia for the passengers was warm and welcoming. After being lifted on board by lines off the side of the ship, the passengers' names were written down and they were quickly given warm meals and blankets. A few nights later, the Carpathia docked in New York City on April 18th, 1912. Survivors were greeted with an enormous crowd of both the public as well as press, wanting to receive all the information they could. To sum it up, this book was a very interesting read, and I highly recommend it.