Searching for the remains of a ship that disappeared more than 100 years ago, the Titanic warns of an iceberg

A research team discovers the shipwreck that sent a warning to the Titanic from the iceberg before the deadliest sinking of a ship.

RMS Titanic sank on her maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912.

Before the fatal collision, he received six sea ice warnings around the Titanic, one from the SS Mesaba.

Six years before it sank, the merchant ship SS Mesaba crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1912 and sent a radio message warning the RMS Titanic that there was ice in the North Atlantic. The warning was received but never reached the Titanic’s cockpit, according to researchers who found the remains of the SS Mesaba.

Later that night, the Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York and sank, killing more than 1,500 of the luxury ship’s 2,220 passengers and crew.

The research team from the University of Bangor in Wales, in September 1918 I. .

It was thought to be lost, but thanks to modern sonar technology, the wreck of the split merchant ship has been rediscovered at the bottom of the Irish Sea.

This sonar technology maps the seafloor and can highlight details of structures. Multi-beam sonar equipment aboard the research vessel “Prince Maddog” helped researchers locate the wreck and reveal its final location for the first time, 21 miles off the coast of Ireland.

For marine archaeologists, multi-beam sonar has the potential to be as effective as the use of aerial photography in landscape archaeology.

Experts aboard the “Prince Maddog” noted that the wreck had previously been misidentified as another ship, while sonar technology provided them with details to prove that it was indeed the SS Mesaba.

The convoy, of which SS Mesaba was part, was sunk by Kriegsmarine (Nazi German navy) submarine U-118 while on its return voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia. A total of 20 people died, including the ship’s captain.

Researchers say the shipwreck is one of 273 shipwrecks in an estimated 7,500 square miles of the Irish Sea, and is one of the shipwrecks scanned and compared to the UK Hydrographic Office database.

There are thought to be 101 shipwrecks, but the number of shipwrecks newly identified by researchers is much higher because many of them, including the SS Mesaba, have not been identified in the past.

Source: Daily Mail