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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]
The following icebreaking supply ships are operating or have operated in the Kazakh Caspian Sea oil fields: Arcticaborg (1998–2018; transferred to Canada) Antarcticaborg (1998–2019; sold to Russia) Tulpar (2002–) Mangystau-class icebreaking tugs Mangystau-1 (2010–2023; transferred to Turkmenian flag)
Comparison of iceberg and ship, according to Bigg and Wilton's estimate of the iceberg. The appearance of the iceberg must remain speculative. Bigg and Wilton describe the Titanic iceberg, based on witness testimony, as 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) high and 400 feet (120 m) long. They assume that only 16.7 per cent of a weathered iceberg is ...
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.
This time, an iceberg the size of Rhode Island could park itself near South Georgia Island. ... Meijers got a close-up look at the iceberg while on a research ship in 2023.
Pages in category "Ships sunk by icebergs" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *