Anybody know of any other significant sinkings caused by collision with an iceberg? Obviously the Titanic was the most consequential, but you never hear of any others (at least I haven’t).
Anyone that has run into Rosie O'Donnell....
It appears (or didn’t) that there was no moon out that night, it hadn’t risen yet. Sliver of a moon came up about 2 hours before dawn.
My late father was on a small Coast Guard “ship” during World War II.
While in the North Atlantic, his skipper, ‘ole Blood and Guts as my father called him, spotted an iceberg off the port side of the ship and another one off the starboard side of the ship in the distance.
The skipper sailed between them. As we all know, 90% of an iceberg is below the surface. As it turns out, these “two” icebergs were actually one large iceberg.
When my father’s Coast Guard vessel hit the submerged portion of the iceberg, which was just below the waterline but not visible, the entire iceberg started to slowly roll over, lifting the ship at an angle.
The tiny Coast Guard vessel slid off the iceberg but remained upright, and the crew could see rust on the iceberg.
There was no apparent damage to the tiny “ship.” The skipper “gunned it” and got the hell out of there. It had a much better ending than the Titanic disaster...no one was hurt in this instance.