Temperature of the night

I doubt it would have been any warmer.
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Since the Titanic foundered about an hour and a half earlier, I doubt there would be any records from the source. Perhaps somebody has some data taken by one of the other ships in the area. In any event it was plenty cold enough that frostbite was a problem for those survivors who had been in the water. Harold Bride for example.
 
Wow. It's amazing what the 1, 500 people went through in the Atlantic Ocean. I could imagine how it would have been back in the 1900's. James Cameron did a very good job with the scene were Rose is looking for Jack, when it suddenly zooms out, and what seems to be miles of swimmers struggling in the icy water *shudders*
 
Forgive the pun, but that was likely one of the most chilling and horrifying scenes in the whole flick as well as way too close to reality for any sailors comfort zone.

While one may take issue with the overall story line, I think Cameron captured the sheer violence of the sinking and the horror of it's aftermath...particularly the frozen corpses drifting on the ocean...a little too well. I suspect that was the idea.
 
They may have. Checking water temperatures and recording weather conditions, sea states, etc. were a routine part of the record keeping. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of what the Carpathia's recordings are. If I see something in the reading material and sources that I have, I'll be sure to pass it on.
 
It should be. That's the sort of observation that would be entered into the log as far as I know. As to whether the logbook exists...that's a better question then you might realize. Britain in World War Two wasn't the safest place to be because of nightly "visits" from the Luftwaffa delivering presents that go BOOM in the night.

As I understand it, some archives with important records were lost this way including...supposedly...the Californian's logbook. If the Carpathia's log was kept in the same place, I doubt it would have fared much better. I wonder if anyone else knows whether or not it's still extant and where it's kept.
 
Captain Lord gives the air temperature at midnight as 27 deg F and the water as 28.

There's more on page 1,142 of the US Inquiry, but I can't get it to display properly here without a lot of messing about.

This seems to the the only record that's not from memory.
 
No, Manuel, indeed they weren't. On the subject of lost documents, I think I am right in saying the Cunard claimed to have lost all documentation relating to the White Star line during the Blitz, which they took over before WW2, as well as the Carpathia log book. Particularly documentation which might have proved controversial. Some people have found this a bit fishy.
 
Cunard wouldn't have had the Carpathia log. Logs were deposited with a government office, whose name escapes me. Inger Sheil is quite an expert of this subject and if she hasn't found it, it doesn't exist.

There's supposed to be a stack of Cunard material in the university at Liverpool. At one time, some of it was on the Internet, but it was taken down and has never resurfaced. I don't see anything fishy about it. Cunard had nothing to hide, except for some fumbling about in the radio room on Carpathia between the wreck and New York. Captain Rostron wouldn't even give his radio log to Marconi himself!
 
No I don't see anything fishy about it either; in fact, now I come to think about it, I don't see anything fishy about any of it really. The only possible thing that might have happened is that Cunard might have inherited some WSL documents which were a bit indiscreet, about lifeboat provision say and, understandably, decided to let sleeping dogs lie after all that time.
 
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