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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]
The first ICGV Óðinn was the second Icelandic Coast Guard vessel that was commissioned and the first purposely built as a patrol ship. She was built in Denmark in 1925 and arrived in Iceland on 23 June 1926. A steel ship with a displacement of 512 tonnes, she was armed with two 57mm cannon. As a result of severe financial mismanagement of the ...
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 ...
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. *
The RMS Titanic departs Southampton on April 10, 1912. (Wikipedia) It riveted the world more than a century ago, yet photographs depicting the iceberg that may have caused the greatest nautical ...
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 ...
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.