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1912: Captain, the New York City Feline Mascot of the RMS Carpathia

Posted: 3rd February 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories
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On April 11, 1912, the RMS Carpathia departed from Chelsea Piers in New York City for Fiume (present-day Rijeka, Croatia), carrying about 740 passengers. The ship never reached its destination on this particular departure. Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, Carpathia‘s wireless operator, Harold Cottam, received some messages from Cape Cod stating they had private traffic for the Titanic. […]