Past: 100% Sailorman: The Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron

Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of April 15, 1912, Captain Arthur Rostron raced the Carpathia to the scene of the sinking, rescued the seven hundred survivors of the world's most famous shipwreck, and then carried them to safety in New York. Join us as Dr. Eric Clements, professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University, tells the story of this master mariner.

This event will take place in the Oscar Hirsch Room and is free and open to the public.