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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 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.
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Cargo ships of Iceland (2 P) This page was last edited on 20 March 2023, at 18:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Museum ships in Iceland (2 P) S. Shipwrecks of Iceland (7 P) Pages in category "Ships of Iceland" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The first settlers arrived in Iceland around 900 AD when the edge of the glacier tongue of Breiðamerkurjökull glacier was about 20 kilometres (12 mi) further north of the present location. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] During the Little Ice Age between 1600 and 1900 AD, with cooler temperatures prevailing in these latitudes, the glacier advanced to about 1 ...
Category: Shipwrecks of Iceland. 1 language. ... Jamestown (ship) S. Sinking of MS Þormóður This page was last edited on 3 July 2023, at 04:33 (UTC). ...