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Saw picts in 1920 of a coast guard cutter holding a memorial service on the iceburg that the titanic hit. Is it a true photo? Mean true painted photo?

2007-04-29 14:45:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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No, it is not true if it was shot in 1920. The RMS Titanic (not SS, but RMS which stood for Royal Mail Steamer) hit the iceberg 8 years before that photo was shot, in 1912, at coordinates
41 degrees, 46 minutes North by 50 degrees, 14 minutes West, about 120 miles off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
The ship grazed the berg, bumping and grinding along the first 300 feet of her starboard side, just below the waterline. This caused her hull plates, which were riveted together, to open along the seams, allowing huge amounts of water to pour into her forward compartments and as far back as her #5 Boiler Room.

2007-04-29 14:57:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

The RMS Titanic struck an ice berg at approximately 11:40pm on April 14, 1912 and sank 2 hours and 40 minutes later at 2:20am April 15, 1912. The ship was located in 1985 at 41 degrees north, 49 degrees west appromimately 450 miles southeast of Newfoundland. She is resting in 2 pieces 12,500 feet (over 2 miles) below the surface of the North Atlantic.

2007-04-29 15:10:38 · answer #2 · answered by Dave D 2 · 3 0

In Richard Brown's Voyage of the Iceberg: The Story of the Iceberg that Sank the Titanic (James Lorimer, 1983), reports (p. 152) that in Walter Lord's account (A Night to Remember, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1955) the German Prinz Adalbert encountered a berg on April 15 and photographed red paint on the ice.

Check the details there, okay?

2007-04-29 15:13:57 · answer #3 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0 1

there was no SS Titanic SS us a US registry it was the RMS Titanic. Impact was at the following coordinates Latitude 41 degrees 46'N, Longitude 50 degrees 14'W

2007-04-29 14:56:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

200 miles east of Sable Island Canada. They have been to the wreck with a mini sub.

2007-04-29 15:00:08 · answer #5 · answered by kellring 5 · 0 1

In the North Atlantic. I believe the pictures were illustrations. Pax -C

2007-04-29 14:50:39 · answer #6 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0 2

NE of Newfoundland

2007-04-29 14:53:50 · answer #7 · answered by buster5748 3 · 0 3

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