View from the 'Carpathia' of a lifeboat from the 'Titanic' brought alongside Size:M: 75 x 50cm Alderman Matthew Wood rushes up

Alderman Matthew Wood rushes up from the left with arms raised while a grinning beefeater stands by

carrying a tray

Original is oil on canvas 58

was to be let Blood

View from the 'Carpathia' of a lifeboat from the 'Titanic' brought alongside Size:M: 75 x 50cm Alderman Matthew Wood rushes upView from the 'Carpathia' of a lifeboat from the 'Titanic' brought alongside, 15 April, 1912. Operated by the White Star Line, RMS 'Titanic' was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of her time, and thought to be unsinkable. During her maiden voyage, bound for New York, she struck an iceberg in thick fog off Newfoundland on 14 April 1912. In the collision five of her watertight compartments were compromised and she sank. Out of the 2228 people