The photograph, along with other Titanic memorabilia, is being auctioned off on April 19th as part of RR Auction’s 100-Year Anniversary Titanic auction. The steamship sank during its maiden voyage from Southampton & Cherbourg to New York, after striking an iceberg off the coast of New Foundland, with the loss of 1,635 passengers and crew. White Star Liner built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast. According to reports, the picture was taken by the captain of another ship that sailed pass through the iceberg 40 hours before during broad daylight. RM HWREG6 RMS Titanic sinking 15 April 1912. Now, whether or not the iceberg is the actual iceberg responsible for sinking the unsinkable can be debated, but how many massive icebergs were in the immediate vicinity of the scene and large enough to do the duty? Judging from the photograph, not many. Vishal Tiwari A never seen before black and white image of the iceberg that most likely sank the iconic RMS Titanic 108-years ago has surfaced. She took numerous photographs that day, and provided this one to John Snyder, whom she befriended on the boat. More than a century after the Titanic’s horrific maiden voyage that claimed more than 1,500 lives, a black and white picture of the iceberg that sank the British passenger liner is up for. Photo was taken by Mabel Fenwick, a newlywed passenger on the Carpathia. The liner's chief steward took a photo of an iceberg with three crownlike points and an odd red streak on it, possibly from the Titanic's hull, he wrote in a note accompanying the photograph. But the simple picture, taken more than a century. Given the position of the rope, this lifeboat likely belonged to the Titanic, as the Carpathia delivered the Titanic’s lifeboats to New York. CNN The grainy black-and-white photograph shows a pointy iceberg in the middle of a calm sea, with puffy clouds barely visible in the sky. The worlds most famous shipwreck has been revealed as never seen before. Despite such all-consuming coverage, one major player in the disaster is often overlooked - the iceberg that sank Titanic. Photo shows the frozen north Atlantic, with two icebergs off in the distance, and visible in the upper right corner, the hull of a lifeboat, with a hauling rope passing diagonally through the image. Original unsigned vintage first generation photo of the Titanic wreck site, 5.25 x 3.5, taken aboard the Carpathia on the morning of April 16, 1912.
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