Photo of the Titanic-Sinking Iceberg Found After 108 Years
2388 Wednesday, 17 June, 2020, 23:48 The RMS Titanic is perhaps the most studied shipwreck of all time. Experts researching it have photographs of the ship being built and launched. They have artifacts from the ship that have been brought after its location was finally discovered. What no one has is photographs of the ship actually hitting the infamous iceberg (Hollywood movies don’t count). In fact, they don’t even have verifiable photos of the iceberg on its collision course … until now. An auction house taking bids on a large cache of Titanic memorabilia unveiled what is possibly the only photograph of the killer iceberg – taken just 40 hours before by the captain of another ship passing through the same waters. Why didn’t he warn the captain of the Titanic? “Extremely rare photo of an oddly-shaped ‘blueberg’ photographed by the Captain of the S.S. Etonian. The image shows a massive iceberg with a very odd elliptical shape, and is captioned in black ink. “Iceberg taken by Captain Wood SS Etonian in 41°50N 49°50W April 12th at 4pm 1913 (sic) Titanic struck April 14th and sank in 3 hours.” The photo is being offered by the Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd auction house as part of a “Titanic, White Star, Ocean Liner & Transport Memorabilia Auction on Saturday 20th June 2020.” The collection includes newspaper clippings, postcards and photographs of everything but the ship hitting the iceberg and sinking – which are not believed to exist anywhere. How do they know this is the real deal? “The significance of this photo is heightened by an original handwritten letter by Captain Wood written on board SS Etonian to the vendor’s great grandfather Billy Tucker who as a young man wrote to Wood regarding the matter of photography. Wood states “I am sending you a sea picture the Etonian running before a gale and the iceberg that sank the Titanic. We crossed the ice tracks 40hrs before her and in daylight so saw the ice easily and I got a picture”.” |
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