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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]
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
M.S. Aramis, circa 1932 Teiyō Maru as a repatriation ship, circa 1943: SS Argentina (1929) 1929 SS Pennsylvania (1929–1938) Scrapped in 1964 One of the 3 sister ships of Argentina, it's unknown which one it is as the name was omitted from the bow. SS Arundel Castle: 1894 SS Birma (1905–1913) SS Mitava (1913–1921) SS Josef Pilsudski (1921 ...
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 ...
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.
Iceland’s new #1 selfie spot may have emerged out of ground despite volcano threat. 120 earthquakes overnight. 08:01, Lydia Patrick. Around 120 earthquakes have rocked the areas surrounding the ...
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). ...
Authorities fear the Iceland volcano could erupt with just 30 minutes notice as the country’s Meteorological Office (IMO) warned magma may have reached very high up in the Earth’s crust ...