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Photos of the iceberg that may have sunk the Titanic are now available, as the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the liner’s sinking.
One of the most striking images of the disaster, the picture has been preserved by Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images and shows the iceberg which the Titanic ploughed into at 11.40pm on April 14th, 1912.
The iceberg lay at latitude 41-46N, longitude 50-14W, off the coast of Newfoundland. Newspaper reports of the time said that the visible part of the iceberg – that above the waterline – was anywhere between 50 to 100 feet high and 200 to 400 feet long.
The chief steward on board the Prinze Adelbert liner took the photo of the iceberg on the morning of the Titanic sinking.
Reports say he spotted a line of red paint along the bottom of the iceberg which experts believe show where it had made contact with Titanic.
Journal.ie reports that the steward was not aware at the time that it had been the iceberg that sunk the Titanic but the location, the marks on the iceberg and Titanic survivors’ descriptions of the iceberg triangulated to confirm that it was.
Meanwhile a memorial garden has been opened in Belfast to commemorate all those who died aboard Titanic.
The garden, in the grounds of Belfast City Hall, is the only one in the world which names all of those who perished on the liner.
Bronze plaques bear the names of the 1,517 passengers and crew who died on sailing from Cobh to New York.
The MS Balmoral cruise ship, currently retracing the Titanic’s voyage, has held two memorial services at the site of the disaster, 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
Rev Huw Mosford, who led the prayers, said: “We hope this will bring healing, and some form of closure, perhaps but I think it will also bring hope.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.ciaradexy | Apr 19, 2012, 12:32 PM EDT
Chilling, iceberg!! geddit??
belfastsnapper | Apr 17, 2012, 06:48 AM EDT
Check out belfast Photographic Tours on FB for pictures of the Titanic Memorial Garden
belfastsnapper | Apr 17, 2012, 06:47 AM EDT
Regarding the colour of the paint on the Iceberg...most ships hulls used to be painted with a thinck coat of red admar or red lead paint to prohibit the growth of weed and other creepy crawlies. This type of stuff used to slow ships down.
sirpeter | Apr 16, 2012, 01:00 PM EDT
Bythebay.Oh!I get it now.It was the Catholics stopping the Catholics from working at Harland and Wolff.So tell me what about the Catholics that worked for other Protestant businesses all over NI.Why were they not stopped by their fellow Catholics? Equating Harland and Wolff to the PSNI.Nice try.This was 1912 though.Ireland was still united under the crown.Catholics were happy to work for anybody who would give them work.No Catholics threatened any Catholics working for a Prod.
Jane | Apr 16, 2012, 11:46 AM EDT
Thank you. Happy to learn something new today!
sirpeter | Apr 16, 2012, 11:25 AM EDT
Jane!!Jane!!Jane!! Raw metal is coated with a couple of coats of a paint call "Redlead" It's extremely high concentration of lead makes for a good prevention of rust.Redlead been a heavier and thicker consistency than the finish coat means that when the metal is scored deeply and the "RED"lead paint having more volume per square inch means Red would be the dominant colour seen.There now mystery solved ;))
Jane | Apr 16, 2012, 10:32 AM EDT
Why was the paint on the iceberg red? Shouldn't it have been dark blue?
IrelandNorth | Apr 16, 2012, 05:44 AM EDT
Headline seems to suggest that it is the iceberg, while the first line in the first paragraph seems to suggest that it only might have been? Did the iceberg not lie between 6-26 degrees north-east and 26-32 degrees south/south-west? Many Northern Irish Protestants be[lie]ve the Pope was seen paddling/pushing the iceberg towards the ship with a 32 foot bargepole. Catholic recruitment to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is probably more to do with providing a human shield against IRA attacks and consequent black propaganda value than genuine religious egalitarianism.
DaithiSuibhne | Apr 15, 2012, 08:21 PM EDT
@Bythebay- Another revisionist story in the works I see. You know the real reason Catholics weren't employed at Harland and Wolff is that they were despised, thought to be ignorant,and troublesome,much like yourself after your last posting
oldboreen | Apr 15, 2012, 05:57 PM EDT
What has the religious affiliation of the Harland and Wolff work force got to do with the above article? Admittedly not a lot. Tommymcarthy posed a question-I merely attempted to provide an answer. Happy now Sparklet??
canadianirish | Apr 15, 2012, 05:44 PM EDT
The MacKay Bennett and Minia were Canadian cable ships dispatched by White Star Lines to retrieve the dead bodies from the frigid Atlantic. Here in Canada, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, there are 150 bodies buried in two cemeteries, some unmarked. The most moving story is that of a young 2 year old boy whose dead body was retrieved and only recently was identified as that of Sidney Goodwin. His wee shoes are housed in the Titanic museum in Halifax. At the time, a police officer was told to burn them but he instead kept them hidden in his desk drawer until retirement. He couldn't bring himself to burn them.
TayandCake | Apr 15, 2012, 01:36 PM EDT
The culprit revealed
oldboreen | Apr 15, 2012, 11:58 AM EDT
Silling seems to regard the loss of 1500 lives as amusing. Thank God you're not my neighbour!
Sparklet | Apr 15, 2012, 11:56 AM EDT
The religion of those employed by Harland and Wolff isn't really relevant to the sinking, is it? A separate issue, worthy of condemnation, but nothing to do with this article.
oldboreen | Apr 15, 2012, 11:50 AM EDT
tommymccarthy. How many Roman Catholics were emplyed by Harland and Wolff?? Probably very few indeed,if any.Certainly no riveters and other craftsmen known to be Catholics, worked on the Titanic, or indeed any other ship in H and W's yards. The British government of the day, were perfectly aware of that fact and did nothing to ease wide-spread Catholic unemployment in Belfast.To have acted otherwise, would almost certainly have resulted in industrial unrest, possibly a mass walk-out. Moreover,the numerous current TV documentaries, not surprisingly,have failed to include that shameful detail.Plenty of emotional and harrowing accounts of the actual disaster,a great deal about the building of the liner,even down to unimportant details concerning carpets and fittings, but as far as I'm aware, nothing about the entirely Protestant workforce making it all possible-a trifling detail no longer considered to be 'PC' perhaps? Or irrelevant?
heavey_joseph | Apr 15, 2012, 11:42 AM EDT
My cousin Mary Kelly survived the sinking by escaping through ventilation ducts. She also took charge of 2 French Orphans that were handed to her by their father as she was in the last life boat deployed.
Silling | Apr 15, 2012, 11:25 AM EDT
Somebody told the captain that there was a mermaid stranded on the Iceberg. The captain responded " F*** the Mermaid ". Immediately the chief steward took it as an order and headed straight for Iceberg. This is the true story of what happened but nobody wants to let it be known. Tommy McCarthy believes me, don't you Tommy?
Silling | Apr 15, 2012, 11:13 AM EDT
The large population of Irish Catholics living in Newfoundland at the time of the collision, were responsible for the Icebergs position that far south. They towed it with Currachs and left it in the middle of the shipping lane. This is a well known fact that is never mentioned. So, to answer your question, Tommy McCarthy, no Catholics were permitted into Harland and Wolff. Also, there was an egg thrown at the Titanic as she left Belfast. It was the puissogs.
Sparklet | Apr 15, 2012, 11:01 AM EDT
Tommymcarthy - what does that have to do with this article?
tommymccarthy | Apr 15, 2012, 10:03 AM EDT
Please tell me how many Roman Catholics were on the building the titanic
sirpeter | Apr 15, 2012, 08:15 AM EDT
According to the Titanic & Nautical Resource Center.That print/pic above was in possession of Captain De Carteret,the Captain of the Cable ship MINIA, reportedly stated that this was the only iceberg near the scene of the collision. The MINIA was one of the first ships to reach the scene following the disaster. It was dispatched after the Western Union Cable ship MACKAY BENNET by White Star Lines to recover debris from the Titanic. During this operation, the MINIA found debris and bodies floating in the vicinity of the above iceberg. Therefore, it is assumed that this is the iceberg that the TITANIC struck. Captain De Carteret gave the print to Captain A. L. Gamble, Commanding Officer of the USCGC SENECA.The photograph by the chief steward of the liner Prinze Adelbert was a different looking iceberg.lol Both were at a latitude 41-46N,longitude 50-14W.