Titanic rescue ship to be filmed

The first video footage of the wreckage of RMS Carpathia, which helped rescue survivors of the Titanic, is set to be recorded by divers.

The vessel rescued 705 people from the Titanic on April 14th 1912 but, after becoming the victim of a torpedo attack, sunk itself in 1918.

Its wreckage lies some 300 miles west of the Devon coastline 500ft down in the Atlantic Ocean.

Dive organiser Jeff Cornish, who hopes to put pieces found on the Carpathis on display, told the BBC: "The ship's bell is going to be a prize possession which we would like to recover.

"(And) what's called a 'loving cup' was given by survivors of the Titanic to Captain Rostron for saving them.

"What's present on the bridge, cutlery, plates with the Cunard insignia on it - those sorts of things that I think people will be interested in looking at in the exhibition."

Captain of the Carpathia Arthur Rostron was hailed as the saviour of the Titanic after he ordered his ship through the icebergs to rescue stranded passengers.

The Carpathia, built at the Swan Hunter Yard in Newcastle, was sailing from New York when it responded to the Titanic's distress call.