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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
Parts of the iceberg also hit the Titanic's superstructure on the starboard side. As it passed the forward corrugated deck, large pieces of ice broke off and fell onto the deck of the ship. [20] However, ice from the iceberg could not only be found on the deck: First class passenger Edwin Kimball reported ice entering his cabin through the ...
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]
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 ...
When the A-68 iceberg calved from the Larsen C ice shelf it weighed up to a trillion tonnes, and measured 2,300 square miles, a quarter of the size of Wales. World’s biggest iceberg ‘is about ...
The world's largest iceberg is on the move for the first time in more than three decades, scientists said on Friday. At almost 4,000 square km (1,500 square miles), the Antarctic iceberg called ...
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 ...
A British military aircraft based in the Falkland Islands on December 8 captured aerial footage of what NASA described as the world’s largest iceberg.The UK’s Ministry of Defence warned that ...