Captain Rostron being the best captain for 4 minutes [A Night To Remember]

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A consummate professional who prepared his entire life for a situation he did not know was coming, but was the EXACT person needed on that night. Also this just shows how much better of a movie it truly was compared to the more recent versions.

AMD
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What was not really said or shown here but was important is that Captain Rostron also doubled the watch to look out for icebergs. A couple of captains at the time critized his actions of going full speed when icebergs had been sighted. But he accounted for that and set many more on watch duty. What was also not said here is that most of the passengers on Carpathia also assisted and helped look after the survivors. Did not matter what class the Carpathia's passengers were they all worked as one complete unit. So to the Captain, crew and passengers of RMS Carpathia. I thank you all for your efforts in endeavoring to save as many of the RMS Titanics passengers as humanly possible.

nzcyclone
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This guy is an absolute hero to be perfectly honest. He did everything he could irl and saved as many people as possible.

MaritimeEvents
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I'll always like how within seconds of him being angry at his junior bursting in unannounced, that he's straight into action.

Bondek
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"...tell him... ...another two hours."

God, how gut-wrenching it must have been, to say that.

CaptainSeato
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IMHO, 'A Night to Remember' knocked the socks off Cameron's 'Titanic'. No Hollywood glitz, just a good and solid portrayal of British 'stiff upper lip' and 'keep calm and carry on' determination and improvisation in extreme adversity. Something just made me think of the Italian Captain of the cruise ship Concordia and why he is currently in jail for deserting his ship and responsibilities. It just makes you wonder what would happen today, God forbid, should anything like this happen again.

Dewiart
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While the captain and his crew should be rightly lauded, we can’t forget the passengers of the Carpathia. They worked together to help the survivors of Titanic, giving them extra clothes and even rooms.

khfanlife
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Captain Arthur Henry Rostron was a brave, caring, selfless, loving gentleman. He immediately sprang into action upon being informed about the Titanic’s distress call, gave orders to turn the Carpathia around and made great efforts to reach the Titanic as quickly as possible as well as made great preparations for the hospitality of the survivors. He was definitely a real captain!

DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY
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The excellent portrayal is by Anthony Bushell, 1904-97.
He was a tank squadron commander with the Welsh Guards, British Army, in World War II.
Mr. Bushnell was an actual hero in the war.
His experience well informs his portrayal of Capt. Rostron.

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The captain of the Carpathia took great risks to get to the Titanic that night. She didn’t have the speed of the Titanic but she was still steaming at a very fast speed considering the danger that icebergs posed. He ordered the heat and hot water to be turned off and ran the engines so hard that it caused permanent damage to them. It’s a shame that they weren’t much closer. More might have been saved. But despite the distance, he made it there quick enough to get the survivors out of the frigid lifeboats and into the warmth of the once again heated interior of Carpathia. I wish that this movie had captured how the passengers of Carpathia pitched in to help search for and pull the survivors aboard and then how they helped the crew to feed them, provide fresh clothing, and find them space to sleep inside the warmth of the ship. Everyone on that ship deserved to be honored for what they did that frigid morning.

jcolbyt
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Captain Rostron also had a very strong Christian faith. When talking about sailing towards the Titanic he said he felt his ship was 'guided' that night. He was a hero and a gentleman.

iainclark
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He truly was the best captain. It's no wonder he eventually became the commodore of the Cunard Line. In fact, I heard a story about him, not related to the Titanic. When the Mauretania was about to go to the breakers' yard in 1935, the retired Rostron was invited aboard, but he declined, preferring to remember the ship as she was when he commanded her.
This past Friday, I saw something about the Titanic on the History Channel, and like I've always said, if it's on the History Channel, it's gonna contain a good amount of BS. One of the people they interviewed was some know-it-all captain, who I guess is a Titanic expert because... he's a captain. He criticized Rostron for the decision to head full-speed for the Titanic through an ice field.
To that I say, what in the actual hell? What the hell was Rostron supposed to do, just take his sweet time while Titanic sank and he was the closest ship to respond to her distress calls? Yes, it is dangerous to put your ship at full-speed through an ice field, but I think the situation demanded it. The fact that he successfully steered around all six icebergs he encountered along the way shows that he knew damn well what he was doing. Sorry, I just had to rant about that. Like I said, it's the History Channel, it's full of BS like aliens.

NorthWestern
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Definitely did his job extremely well indeed! "A Night To Remember" is arguably the best of the films made about the sinking of the Titanic!

pierremainstone-mitchell
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Far and away the best film about RMS Titanic. No other film comes close.

tomhaskett
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I always use the term "brutally competent" to describe Rostron.

richgweil
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It’s heartbreaking when he says to tell the Titanic they’re still two hours out and you can tell be his resigned tone that he knows that’s going to be too late. Especially when you see the clock and realize the Titanic is going to be gone in half an hour.

Dagger
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Certainly Captain Rostron was a clear thinking, concise and extraordinarily competent Captain. The idea man in such circumstances...but let us also remember that he was portrayed to perfection by that fine character actor Anthony Bushell, who portrayal captures the spirit of a great seaman.

doonsbury
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The Carpathia and it's captain and also their wireless man were heros and should be remembered for all they did to save many Titanic survivors

scottmiller
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Something I enjoy about A Night to Remember is the sound of the rotary inverters spinning up to provide the HT for the spark transmitters together with the sound of correctly sent Morse code.

BrianMorrison
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It must have torn Captain Rostron up knowing he would not arrive till after the Titanic had foundered.

brianwilcox