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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 .
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. *
Britain's polar research ship has crossed paths with the largest iceberg in the world — a “lucky” encounter that enabled scientists to collect seawater samples around the colossal berg as it ...
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 ...
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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 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 ...