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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]
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 photograph can be worth more than 1,000 words -- especially if it's an image related to the Titanic.
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 ...
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In 1961, the two sides made peace and allowed British ships in Icelandic waters at certain times of the year. [6] Before this could be completely settled in international courts, a second confrontation began. [5] Iceland expanded its EEZ again, this time to 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi).
Colombia Says It Found One of the Most Valuable Sunken Ships Ever Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Friday the discovery of a Spanish boat that sank with a massive cargo hold of ...