Divers have been examining the wreckage of the RMS Carpathia, the ship that came to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaster.

Nearly 100 years after the Carpathia saved more than 700 stranded passengers from the Titanic in 1912, divers have gone down to the wreckage of the ship, which lies 300 miles west of the Devon coastline.

The Carpathia's captain, Arthur Cottam, bravely ordered his crew to sail through icebergs in order to reach the stranded passengers of the Titanic.

Sunk after being hit by a German torpedo in 1918 on its way from Liverpool to Boston, the wreck of the Carpathia now lies on the seabed, 500ft below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and 200 miles off the Irish coast.

Divers are now keen to start salvaging items from the ship and an exhibition of artefacts, such as Cunard crockery and the telegraph machine used to communicate between the bridge and the engine room, is being planned.

The underwater archaeological expedition is now searching for items such as the ship's bell and a cup given to Captain Cottam by survivors of the Titanic.