~RMS Carpathia~ Cunard White Star Line Ice Bucket

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~RMS Carpathia~ Cunard White Star Line Ice Bucket Another Great Offering Brought To You By The ~Pine Ridge 7 Ranch General Store~ We offer over 1200 unique items and make it vary easy for you to shop with us at our eBay store. All items are set up in specific categories, this way you can be very selective in your search finding what you want and need much faster and easier. Please take time to stop by our store today and take a look; we are sure you will be very pleased that you did. If you are a collector of all things nautical in nature then you will love this seaworthy item. This is a genuine rustic and most unusual nautical ice bucket with a wonderful marriage of brass, copper, and silver. The bucket stands a full 9 inches tall and it is 8 inches wide at the largest point. The weight of this piece is a solid 2-1/2 pounds. The inside appears to be silver plated while the outside looks like a very pleasing brass finish. It has two large fold down carrying rings and t are two applied solid brass anchors on the bucket. T are also two very prominent solid brass tags that read: R.M.S. CARPATHIA PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE FROM FIRST CLASS PASSENGER CABIN. This item is in new condition, it is not covered with dents and has not been beat up. Get it for your bar while you can. This item is made available from our purchasing agent who searches the world over buying nautical treasures. Thus, bringing us many unique and wonderful products to offer you at eBay. Remember, brass is king when it comes to nautical. Other interesting information about the Carpathia that you may not know. The Twin Screw Cunard steamship Carpathia was built at the Wallsend-on-Tyne works of Swan & Hunter in 1901. She was launched on 6 August 1902 and, after fitting out, registered a gross tonnage of 13,603. She was 558 feet in length with a width of 64 feet 3 inches and depth 40 feet. Her eight cylinder quadruple-expansion engines installed by the Wallsend Slipway Co. gave her a service speed of approximately 14 knots. On 5 May 1903 the Carpathia left Liverpool on her maiden voyage, travelling via Queenstown to New York The Carpathia plied the Liverpool to New York or Boston route in the Summer and, between November and May, she carried immigrants (mainly Hungarian) from Trieste and Fiume to America. As well as providing essential immigrant revenue these summer cruises to Europe were particularly enjoyed by wealthy Americans on holiday with additional stops being made at the ports of Gibraltar, Genoa and Naples (sometimes including Messina and Palermo). In 1905 the Carpathia was refitted to provide accommodation for 100 first class, 200 second class and 2,250 third class passengers. By 1909 she was permanently assigned to the Mediterranean service, only returning to Liverpool at the end of each year for a refit. Carpathia's greatest fame, of course, is unrelated to her service to Cunard. On April 1912, on a dark moonless night of 14-15 Carpathia raced 58 miles through a North Atlantic icefield in response to the distress calls of White Star's R.M.S. Titanic. Since first picking-up Titanic's distress call, the Cunard Line's RMS Carpathia had made an heroic all-out dash to the area w Titanic's senior radio operator, Jack Phillips, had last radioed its position. Her captain, Arthur Rostron, had made a frantic bid to coax as much speed out of his vessel as was then possible, and he had ordered all of the off-duty firemen and trimmers to report to the boiler rooms in order to help to keep Carpathia's boilers at full pressure, providing much-needed steam to the overworked engines. Rostron had even ordered the steam-heating which supplied the passengers' cabins to be shut-off, conserving yet more steam for the engines, which had never worked so fast in their lives, nor would they ever again. Although she arrived on scene after Titanic foundered, she rescued all 705 survivors in Titanic's lifeboats and returned them to New York. At the beginning of World War One, o... read more

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