DATE POSITION 



Nov 1892 

 22 Feb 1891 



Off Labrador, for Provincelown 

 Massachusells 



46=29 N 45'54 W from Boston lo 

 Liverpool 



24 Feb 1891 46 N 48W from Mobile to Liverpool 



16 Mar 1891 42^50W 49'50W from New York to 



Leith 



1890 



Summer 1890 

 13 Jan 1890 

 29 Jan 1890 



15 Apr 1890 



May 1890 



May 1890 



May 1890 



2 May 1890 



13 May 1890 



19 May 1890 



Nortfi Allanllc 



Off Labrador 



From Baltimore to Liverpool 

 From Hamburg to New York 



43°50'N 39°37W from New York to 

 Liverpool 



Grand Banks from Liverpool lo 

 Shediac, NB 



From Greenock an- Quebec Jun 1 



Off tfie Banks of Newfoundland from 

 Liverpool arr Quebec 14'" 



48°13'N 49M5-W from Antwerp to 

 Montreal 



43'"55 N 48M8W from Newcastle to 

 New York 



47'10N 42- 30-W from Copenhagen 

 lo New York 



27 May 1890 45°48'N 47'50W 



DESCRIPTION 

 OF INCIDENT 



Scfinr PEARL NELSON hit a 

 berg 200 high in dense fog 



SS IOWA steamed through ice 

 and hit a berg or was cut through 

 by ice 



SS ARDANCORRAH 

 (ARDANCORRACH) struck a 

 berg (got amongst ice) 



LIVES 

 LOST/INJURED 



All but 1 man 

 desened ihe captain 



Crew saved by SS 

 Chester 



Unknown perhaps 

 some loss 



SS CRITIC hit a small iceberg None known 



SS ALCIDES struck in the side 

 by a berg while caught in the ice 

 pack 



Unknown American yacht struck 

 a berg m fog 



SS NESSMORE hit a berg (see 

 also 29 Apr 1883) 



SS CELLERT collided with 

 iceberg, or enonrnous cake of 

 ice. in icefield 100 mi wide 

 sustaining two shocks 



Bark MAGDALENA hit a bern at 

 10:30 pm 



Barq SPERANZA struck a berg 



Ship NORWOOD hit a berg 



SS PARISIAN hit a berg while 

 proceeding cautiously 



SS NORSE KING sustained a 

 number of heavy blows by ice 



SS BEACON LIGHThil a berg 

 90' high and 600 long m dense 

 fog trying to turn it and hilling a 

 projecting ledge 



SS THINGVALLA collided with 

 a 20 high looo long berg head 

 on at 5 kis at 5 15 am m thick 

 weather 



SS NORMANNIA sighted a berg 

 dead ahead at 5 15pm in dense 

 fog Engines reversed, course 

 changed and glanced off berg 



Unknown 



1 dropped dead of a 

 heart attack 



Unknown 



None known 



Crew picked up by 

 SS Umbria 



Unknown 

 Unknown 

 None known 

 Unknown 

 None known 



None 



None: passengers 

 hardly felt the shock 



DAMAGE 



Crew came back on learning 

 vessel was only partly disabled 



Abandoned sinking m ice going 

 down by the head 



Badly damaged and all but 

 foundered: bows stove and 

 forehold filled with water lost 

 propeller 



Hole in stbd bow. several plates 

 abobe waterline damaged: fore 

 compartment filled with water 



Scored by a jagged gash that 

 almost sank her Made 

 St John's 



Craft survived 



NRC - Instiute for Marine Dynamics. 14 December 2000 



Damage to bows 



Hole in forepeak 1 foot square 

 and several cracks in plates, 

 otherwise uninjured 



Badly damaged and abandoned 

 next day 



Abandoned derelict sited July 



Bows damaged and headgear 

 earned away 



Got clear without damage 



Plates torn from stem, forward 

 compartment full of water 



50 tons of ice landed on 

 forecastle smashing deck and 

 rails: vessel thrown on beam 

 ends, hull damaged 



Stove stem and stern bow 

 boarded up and secured with 

 quick setting concrete and 

 continued to New York 



Damaged turtle back and about 

 40 of plates. 



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