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Photo gunung it which might drown Titanic only revealed 112 years after the disaster. The black and white photo was taken by a mortician working on a funeral ship that arrived at the wreck site after the sinking of the Titanic.
This photograph is now being auctioned at Henry Aldridge & Son Auctioneers of Devizes, Wiltshire, with an estimate of £4,000 to £7,000. Seen in the photo is a large, strangely shaped glacier like an elephant on the surface of the North Atlantic.
The photo was taken two days after the luxury liner hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank in 1912, killing 1,522 people. The photographer, believed to be funeral director John Snow Jr, gave it the title ‘Titanitic’.
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Snow’s father managed the mortuary in Nova Scotia and when news of the tragedy spread, he and his officials were called to Halifax. They boarded the Mackay-Bennett ship which contained 100 coffins and 100 tons of ice to preserve the remains. They went to the location of the shipwreck and arrived on April 17, 1912. In total they found 306 bodies from the sea.
The 5-inch by 3-inch photo of the iceberg was handed down from generation to generation until it was acquired by a Titanic memorabilia collector about 30 years ago. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge stated that no one could say for sure this was the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
“But what we can say is that after the rescue ship Carpathia, the Mackay-Bennett was one of the first ships to reach the wreck and the burial officer decided to take a photo of this iceberg. He must have had his own reasons for taking this photo of the iceberg. He titled it Titanic and put it up for posterity,” he said.
“This is a very rare photo and we are sure it will attract a lot of interest,” he was quoted as saying detikINET from the Daily Mail.
The claimed unsinkable Titanic was speeding through the ice fields of the North Atlantic when it struck an iceberg at 10:20 pm on April 14, 1912. It sank on its maiden voyage.
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2024-04-11 15:00:45
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