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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
Lauritzen claimed that a riveted hull was not as resistant to ice pressure as a welded hull. [1] Hans Hedtoft had the code letters and radio call sign OXKA. [4] The ship was named after a former prime minister of Denmark. The ship was armed with three 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, on the orders of the Danish Ministry of Defence (MoD). The armament ...
Quartermaster Alfred Olliver came onto the open bridge from port and saw the tip of the iceberg rushing past the ship. [20] According to Olliver, the iceberg was about as high as the boat deck or a little higher. He only saw the tip of the iceberg, so he could not estimate its width. Unexpectedly, the iceberg was not white, but a kind of dark ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Iceberg A68 has broken into lots of bits, and A68p is the most recent one to be named. And even though it's no longer nearly as big as it was, it's still about 100 square kilometres.
1948 – Camera-equipped PB-1G begins an iceberg census off Baffin Island completed in 1949. [6] 1949 – Aircraft become the sole reconnaissance tools for the first time. [6] [10] 1956 – Unsuccessful tests to identify icebergs by marking with dye markers, commercial dye, and used motor oil. [6] 1958 – Last ice patrol by a PB-1G. [6]