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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 .
The iceberg photographed on the morning of 15 April by the chief steward of the Prinz Adalbert who, before even learning of the collision, noticed a red smear along the iceberg's base 'Iceberg' at the Titanic Museum in Branson, Missouri, whose building is modeled on the famous ship. The unnamed iceberg that sank the Titanic collided with the ...
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.
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 ...
Erosion has carved dramatic features into the iceberg, spectacular new photos show. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
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 ...
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]