Fourteen died from exposure, two apparently from trauma during the wreck. All were wearing life belts and according to the ship’s doctor, only one of them had water in the lungs indicating drowning. The bodies were found miles apart, the last two recovered 45 miles away from each other. The crew of the Minia recovered 17 bodies from the wreck site, among them Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk Railway, but most of the deceased had no identification. The Minia searched a wide area, however, so the Captain likely snapped a photograph of the only iceberg he’d seen that was where the ship actually went down rather than the many miles over which the bodies floated, drawn towards the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. The Reverend Henry Ward Cunningham, on the other hand, told the press he had seen two icebergs and that the officers told him they’d seen more in the distance. According to him and the ship’s logs, that was the only iceberg encountered near the site of the collision. It reached the North Atlantic wreck site on April 26th, four days after the first recovery ship, the Mackay-Bennett, and searched through May 3rd.Ĭaptain De Carteret took the photograph of the iceberg with a red gash along the base. The Minia was a cable ship owned by Western Union which normally laid submarine cable for telegraph and was the second of four ships chartered by White Star as recovery vessels after the disaster. Captain William De Carteret of the Minia captured another possible candidate while searching for bodies. This isn’t the only picture of an iceberg suspect taken in the aftermath of the Titanic‘s demise. On one side red paint was plainly visible, which has the appearance of having been made by the scraping of a vessel on the iceberg. The Titanic disaster was not yet known by us. “On the day after the sinking of the Titanic, the steamer Prinz Adalbert passes the iceberg shown in this photograph. It is described in a brief statement signed by the Chief Steward and three other crewmen: The news of the disaster hadn’t reached the liner yet, but the Chief Steward noticed red paint on the iceberg and took the photo out of interest. Linoenewald, Chief Steward of the German liner Prinz Adalbert a few miles south of where the Titanic had gone down taking 1,517 souls with her just hours earlier. The picture was taken the morning of April 15th, 1912, by M. A photograph of an iceberg that may be the one that sank the Titanic is going up for auction on Saturday, October 24th.
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