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Date Ship name Deaths 2007 Explorer: 0 1991 Finnpolaris: 0 1977 William Carson: 0 1959 Hans Hedtoft: 95 (all) 1923 Le Raymound: 2+ 1912 Titanic: 1496 1901
The new ship was launched from the city of Tønsberg on 20 June 2012. The ship floated very well and in March 2014 it was sailed on the open seas, with Færder as its destination; the ship performed very well, achieving a speed of 10 knots under full sail. The reconstruction was thus a success and demonstrated that the Oseberg ship really could ...
The only piece of wreckage ever recovered was a lifebuoy which washed ashore on Iceland and was discovered on 7 October 1959, some nine months after the ship sank. [5] The ship sank with parish registers from parishes of Greenland, which were meant to be deposited in archives in Denmark, causing a major loss for Greenlandic genealogy. [12]
This ship and its story is seemingly one of the inspirations for the setting events in Jacques Tardi's graphic novel, Le démon des glaces (The Demon of Ice), 1974. [5] Set in 1889, a passenger ship named L'Anjou is passing through the Barents Sea when it has a fatal encounter with another called The Iceland Loafer, which has somehow become frozen atop a huge iceberg.
A photograph can be worth more than 1,000 words -- especially if it's an image related to the Titanic.
Pages in category "Ships sunk by icebergs" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
One of the biggest icebergs on record has broken away from Antarctica -- and it could have devastating consequences. 'Larsen C iceberg' weighs 21 million Titanic ships, and other mass comparisons ...
I.e., dozens of ships have rammed icebergs but survived; and others have sunk (slowly, after everyone was rescued) after springing minor but unstoppable leaks while deliberately traversing fields of small ice (as the Explorer was) or becoming trapped within a pinched-off ice lead and being slowly hull-crushed as they wintered stranded. If all ...