1810 - 1958 (Hill. IWS). The collcciion ot'tlaid for \h\s report spaniieci maii\ years and it 

 beeamc apparent while doing so. that it eontained inan> iept)its ol'ship^ being damaged ov 

 sunk by paek ice and icebcfgs. As oil and gas di,seo\ei"ies on the Giand Banks were neaiing 

 the production phase at this time, there was increasing interest in the incidence of ice and 

 how it may pose a threat to pnuiuction platforms and supply \essels. The Institute for 

 Marine Dynamics is currently iinoKcd in a 3 year Joint Industrv Pixtject on the interaction of 

 bergy bits with ships and structures. Also, there was renewed interest in the Titanic theme 

 thanks to Hollywood, and so it was decided to incorporate the collision database into a report 

 to meet the many requests for mlormalion being received. 



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 Figure 1: Geographic dis:tiibution ot 360 known location:> of iceberg incidents 



Several of the incidents in the database presented here were found during the initial search 

 for sea ice reports, as mentioned above. However, that search concentrated mainly on the 

 winter months .January to April and occasionally into May. While iceberg incidents from 

 outside that time frame were noted, it left approximately half of each year unsearched. This 

 is now essentially complete with contemporary daily to weekly material checked 

 continuously from 1820 to 1947, 1985 to 1988. 1991 to 2000. reflecting archive sources 

 available to the author, in addition to secondary sources covering the whole time frame. 

 While further incidents will certainly come to light, it is believed that additional data will not 

 greatly affect trends now discussed. 



INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOURCES AND THE DATA 



The primary sources of information on the ship collisions were the New York Maritime 

 Register (1869) and Lloyd's List ( 1741 ) supplemented by other journals and newspapers as 

 outlined in the Bibliography listed with the database. Compiled shipping and shipwreck 

 databases, some available on the Internet, have also given information. Often, the 

 information for each of the incidents was built from a number of sources, few giving the full 



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