Sir Arthor H. Rostron I presume? Captain of the RMS Carpathia and RMS Mauretania? Knighted by the Monarchy for saving over 700 Survivors from the sinking of RMS Titanic April 1912
Many exciting things have happened to me aboard the RMS Queen Mary. I've been patted on the back of my shoulder by unseen hands in the boiler room. I've heard disembodied voices throughout the ship. I saw an apparition once. One thing that will always stand out in my top ten list of things I experienced in my time as an assistant host for the Friday night Paranormal Investigation Tour aboard ship and as an investigator who has logged many hours within her bulkheads, one thing I am always grateful for was getting to know Captain Arthur Henry Rostron. Sir Arthur if you do not mind. Yes, he was Knighted for his heroic deeds in saving lives. He enabled the rescue of hundreds of survivors from the catastrophe which was the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. This was while he was the Captain of the RMS Carpathia.
Sir Arthur put to sea as a young lad at the age of 13. He progressed through his career and obtained rank after rank as his performance was outstanding. The Captain was also a reserve Naval Officer and he served in the Japan-Russo War of 1911. It was when he returned from this war that he became the Captain of the RMS Carpathia. RMS Carpathia steamed out of New York on April 11, 1912 and the RMS Titanic struck the ice berg on April 12, 1912, the very next day. It was when Carpathia returned to New York with survivors in hand that the complete tragic story of Titanic first became known to the world.
Rostron Bio-information provided by: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biography/arthur-henry-rostron.html.
RMS Mauretania: In May 1935 her furnishings and fittings were put up for auction and on 1 July that year she departed Southampton for the last time to Metal Industries shipbreakers at Rosyth.[23] One of her former captains, the retired commodore Sir Arthur Rostron, captain of the RMS Carpathia during the Titanic rescue, came to see her on her final departure from Southampton. Rostron refused to go aboard Mauretania before her final journey, stating that he preferred to remember the ship as she was when he commanded her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Mauretania_(1906)
The construction of the Queen Mary represented the zenith of passenger ship building for Cunard. Plans began for a new record breaking liner to replace the Mauretania as early as 1926. It was not until 1930, however, that Cunard announced that a new 1000 ft, 81,000 ton liner was to be built by John Brown & Co Ltd. The keel of the ship was laid down on 31 January 1931. The building proceeded well and the launch was scheduled for May 1932. On 11 December 1931 the Cunard Board announced that work on the ship was to be suspended. The world economic depression had hit the shipbuilding industry and Cunard were forced to pay all outstanding bills and lay off the Clydeside workforce indefinitely.
http://www.ocean-liners.com/ships/qm.asp
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Sir Arthur put to sea as a young lad at the age of 13. He progressed through his career and obtained rank after rank as his performance was outstanding. The Captain was also a reserve Naval Officer and he served in the Japan-Russo War of 1911. It was when he returned from this war that he became the Captain of the RMS Carpathia. RMS Carpathia steamed out of New York on April 11, 1912 and the RMS Titanic struck the ice berg on April 12, 1912, the very next day. It was when Carpathia returned to New York with survivors in hand that the complete tragic story of Titanic first became known to the world.
Rostron Bio-information provided by: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biography/arthur-henry-rostron.html.
RMS Mauretania: In May 1935 her furnishings and fittings were put up for auction and on 1 July that year she departed Southampton for the last time to Metal Industries shipbreakers at Rosyth.[23] One of her former captains, the retired commodore Sir Arthur Rostron, captain of the RMS Carpathia during the Titanic rescue, came to see her on her final departure from Southampton. Rostron refused to go aboard Mauretania before her final journey, stating that he preferred to remember the ship as she was when he commanded her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Mauretania_(1906)
The construction of the Queen Mary represented the zenith of passenger ship building for Cunard. Plans began for a new record breaking liner to replace the Mauretania as early as 1926. It was not until 1930, however, that Cunard announced that a new 1000 ft, 81,000 ton liner was to be built by John Brown & Co Ltd. The keel of the ship was laid down on 31 January 1931. The building proceeded well and the launch was scheduled for May 1932. On 11 December 1931 the Cunard Board announced that work on the ship was to be suspended. The world economic depression had hit the shipbuilding industry and Cunard were forced to pay all outstanding bills and lay off the Clydeside workforce indefinitely.
http://www.ocean-liners.com/ships/qm.asp
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So as you can see there is a connection between Captain Rostron, as RMS Queen Mary essentially replaced RMS Mauretania. My personal thoughts being that since Mauretania is no longer around, perhaps the good Captain finds comfort in the surroundings of RMS Queen Mary and visits her. All is pure conjecture on my part but reasonable when you consider the following.
In January 2011 four investigators met aboard the RMS Queen Mary with hopes of making some contact with spirits from the RMS Titanic. They were myself, Rob Wlodarski of I.P.R.O., Wayne Bonner of I.P.R.O. and Bob Davis of Planet Paranormal.
It was during this session that a very startling thing occurred. One of the Ovilis devices which speaks words after theoretically being influenced by spirit energy kept repeating a word during this session. It wasn't until Bob Davis realized there was a picture of an individual from the Titanic tragedy that fit what was being said that we discovered who. Bob grabbed the picture and showed us. To paraphrase, Bob showed us the picture and said Rostron! The Ovilis is saying Rostron! And as soon as that happened we began to see a multitude of responses from the lights of the KII meters going off and we asked if this indeed was Captain Rostron communicating with us and the KIIs reacted again.
In April of 2010, as was my practice on Friday nights when I was assisting on the Friday night Paranormal Investigation tour, I would come aboard ship between 9:00 and 10:00 PM. I would roam the ship and take photos and do EVP. At the time I had no thoughts of the RMS Titanic or Captain Rostron. I honestly did not know who he was.
On this night I roamed into the Mauretania Room on M-deck. Many random photos were taken by me in this room. In particular are three photos that are the most astounding photos I have ever taken. I looked at them upon review and at first I thought I had captured my own reflection in the glossy wall in the starboard side of the room. So I actually put them away and did not look at them again until months later. When I did happen to look at them again it struck me that this was not my face. Not even close! Plus the fellow in the picture appeared to be wearing a Boler hat/Derby and a heavy coat. It clearly was not me. I sent the pictures around to various investigators for an opinion. One of the few that actually responded to me was Bob Davis and he found the pictures very interesting.
Later on I was motivated to find a picture of Captain Rostron not in uniform and perhaps wearing a derby and I did. The picture I found looked so much like the photo I had captured it was beyond belief. I will not post the comparison shot here but if you would like to see it then my friends Brian Clune and Bob Davis have a new book out called "Ghosts of The Queen Mary" and you can order this book or actually purchase it aboard ship. I have included my original photos herein for your viewing.
Captain Roston has continued to make his presence known since the day in January 2011. There were three more investigations regarding the Titanic through April of 2011 and the Captain was believed to have been contacted in all those. In December 2013 I performed an Echovox session in the engine room aboard the RMS Queen Mary and I believe Roston's name is mentioned several times. A video of that Echovox session is included here in as well.
In January 2011 four investigators met aboard the RMS Queen Mary with hopes of making some contact with spirits from the RMS Titanic. They were myself, Rob Wlodarski of I.P.R.O., Wayne Bonner of I.P.R.O. and Bob Davis of Planet Paranormal.
It was during this session that a very startling thing occurred. One of the Ovilis devices which speaks words after theoretically being influenced by spirit energy kept repeating a word during this session. It wasn't until Bob Davis realized there was a picture of an individual from the Titanic tragedy that fit what was being said that we discovered who. Bob grabbed the picture and showed us. To paraphrase, Bob showed us the picture and said Rostron! The Ovilis is saying Rostron! And as soon as that happened we began to see a multitude of responses from the lights of the KII meters going off and we asked if this indeed was Captain Rostron communicating with us and the KIIs reacted again.
In April of 2010, as was my practice on Friday nights when I was assisting on the Friday night Paranormal Investigation tour, I would come aboard ship between 9:00 and 10:00 PM. I would roam the ship and take photos and do EVP. At the time I had no thoughts of the RMS Titanic or Captain Rostron. I honestly did not know who he was.
On this night I roamed into the Mauretania Room on M-deck. Many random photos were taken by me in this room. In particular are three photos that are the most astounding photos I have ever taken. I looked at them upon review and at first I thought I had captured my own reflection in the glossy wall in the starboard side of the room. So I actually put them away and did not look at them again until months later. When I did happen to look at them again it struck me that this was not my face. Not even close! Plus the fellow in the picture appeared to be wearing a Boler hat/Derby and a heavy coat. It clearly was not me. I sent the pictures around to various investigators for an opinion. One of the few that actually responded to me was Bob Davis and he found the pictures very interesting.
Later on I was motivated to find a picture of Captain Rostron not in uniform and perhaps wearing a derby and I did. The picture I found looked so much like the photo I had captured it was beyond belief. I will not post the comparison shot here but if you would like to see it then my friends Brian Clune and Bob Davis have a new book out called "Ghosts of The Queen Mary" and you can order this book or actually purchase it aboard ship. I have included my original photos herein for your viewing.
Captain Roston has continued to make his presence known since the day in January 2011. There were three more investigations regarding the Titanic through April of 2011 and the Captain was believed to have been contacted in all those. In December 2013 I performed an Echovox session in the engine room aboard the RMS Queen Mary and I believe Roston's name is mentioned several times. A video of that Echovox session is included here in as well.
To see the comparison photo of Captain Rostron and my photo please take a look and/or purchase Brian and Bob's new book.
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