Arthur rostron autobiography in five shorts
Captain Arthur Henry Rostron (played by Tom Hanks) and his crew receive the distress call from the Titanic and immediately set sail to its aid.
Arthur Rostron: [Captain Rostron is urging his Chief Engineer to give him all the speed possible as they race to the rescue] Cut your heating and hot water.!
Captain Arthur Rostron
Arthur Henry Rostron was born in Astley Bridge, Bolton, Lancashire, to James and Nancy Rostron in 1869.
Educated at the Bolton School from 1882 to 1883 and then at the Astley Bridge High School, the young Rostron decided that he wanted to pursue a career at sea, and so joined the cadet school HMS Conway, in Liverpool, at the age of thirteen.
After two years of training there, he was apprenticed to a Liverpool shipping firm bearing the imposing name of the Waverley Line of Messrs. Williamson, Milligan, and Co. Sailing first on an iron-hulled clipper ship, Cedric the Saxon, Rostron spent the next six years at sea, sailing to all parts of the world including the Americas, India and Australia, gaining invaluable experience in practical seamanship while he studied for his various Mates’ examinations: by 1887 he was serving as Second Mate aboard the barque Red Gauntlet.
Rostron would later remember that while he was aboard her he had his closest brush with