Of the roughly 2,200 people aboard the Titanic, only about 700 people made it into lifeboats. When the Titanic sank at approximately 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, its survivors didn't know if, or when, ...

Meanwhile, hundreds of frozen bodies floated nearby where ... the lifeboats onto the ship. These photos show how the Carpathia saved a fraction of the Titanic's passengers from the icy sea.