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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.
Category: Shipwrecks of Iceland. 1 language. ... Jamestown (ship) S. Sinking of MS Þormóður This page was last edited on 3 July 2023, at 04:33 (UTC). ...
It's iceberg season in eastern Canada and photographer Kalen Poole took his drone out on its first flight off the coast of southern Labrador, where it captured incredible footage of an iceberg ...
The most commonly accepted is that the ship struck an iceberg in the dark or fog. If so, the ship may have sunk too quickly for the crew to react. The lack of wreckage found later may have been the result of the ship's particularly secure loading and rigging, a necessity against the strong winds known as the Roaring Forties. An alternative ...
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 ...
The ship measures 69.8 metres (229 ft 0 in) long with a beam of 10 m (32 ft 10 in) and a draught of 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in). The ship is powered by two MAN 8L 40/54 diesel engines turning two shafts with Kamewa controllable pitch propellers rated at 9,800 kilowatts (13,200 hp).