RMS Carpathia, Minecraft Tutorial #1

RMS Carpathia Minecraft Tutorial #1

Part 1 of my Minecraft tutorial on how to build the Cunard Line’s RMS Carpathia

Part 1 sees the construction of the ships Draft (Red Section)

The next part, Part 2 will focus on the ships Main Hull

RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in their shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 from Liverpool to Boston (Massachusetts). She continued on this route before being transferred to Mediterranean service in 1904. In April 1912, she became famous for rescuing the survivors of rival White Star Line’s RMS Titanic after the latter struck an iceberg and sank with a loss of 1,517 lives in the North Atlantic Ocean. Carpathia braved dangerous ice fields and diverted all steam power to her engines in her rescue mission. She arrived only two hours after Titanic had sunk and rescued 705 survivors from the ship’s lifeboats.

Carpathia herself was sunk on 17 July 1918 after being torpedoed by the German submarine SM U-55 off the southern Irish coast with a loss of five crew members.

The Carpathia sank at 11:00 a.m. at a position recorded by the Snowdrop as 49°25′N 10°25′W. This is about 1 hour and 45 minutes after the torpedo strike approximately 120 mi (190 km) west of Fastnet. At the time of her sinking, the Carpathia was the fifth Cunard steamship sunk in as many weeks. The others being the Ascania, the Ausonia, the Dwinsk and the Valentia, leaving only five Cunarders afloat from the large pre-war fleet. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carpathia)

The name of the ship comes from the mountain range of the Carpathians.

RMS Carpathia Minecraft Tutorial #1