The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic
smithsonianmag.com
smithsonianmag.com
Somehow the departure from Southampton got omitted so it looks like the Titanic didn't pick up any passengers from Britain.
She stands along
Southampton Dock
with her handkerchief
And her summer frock
That clings to her wet body in the rainIt had been observed and tracked, which seems surprising at first, but of course the Victorians and Edwardians would do that, and I would expect that activity and sharing of information goes back much further. A history would be fascinating.
While it had not been named, by pointing that out the article implies that others were. I wonder what Edwardian conventions for naming icebergs were. Current ones are rather bland: https://www.antarcticreport.com/articles/the-us-national-ice...
https://www.danielstonebooks.com/
The Food Explorer was his first book?
https://www.amazon.com/Food-Explorer-Adventures-Globe-Trotti...
"Towson knew that icebergs posed an existential danger to the wooden hulls of nineteenth‐century ships. Steel hulls were invincible, he said, but that was based on assumption, not experience"
"Only 1 percent of northern hemisphere icebergs survive this desert zone, and finally, only one in several thousand would make it to 41 degrees north, the same latitude as New York City and directly in the path of transatlantic ships."
even challenge this a bit?