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Re: Iceberg time...
From: N S Gurnell
Date: 2012 Apr 15, 09:42 -0700
From: Frank Reed <FrankReed@HistoricalAtlas.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 7:17:45 PM
Subject: [NavList] Iceberg time...
From: N S Gurnell
Date: 2012 Apr 15, 09:42 -0700
Hi Frank, Binder Dun dat.
March 1943 Third Mate S.S. Empire Puma, straggler from Convoy ON 170. Stuck in ice for a few days and then working through growlers to Newfy John. See page 259 in Clay Blair's "Hitler's U-Boat War." 57 new shell plates in Bethlehem Steel's DD in Baltimore. Cheers
From: Frank Reed <FrankReed@HistoricalAtlas.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 7:17:45 PM
Subject: [NavList] Iceberg time...
Well, it's about 25 minutes until the centennial of Titanic striking that iceberg. And so about 3h 15m until the centennial of the sinking.
On my flight back from the UK last month, I spent about half an hour looking for an iceberg. We flew just south of Greenland --beautiful view of the fjords-- and then from the islands that I saw and comparing my photos afterward against the map, I could see we crossed the Labrador coast very close to the town of Nain. I would estimate my iceberg was in the vicinity of 57.3 N and 57 W. From 37000 feet altitude it was about 20 minutes of arc across. It had two peaks, one of which cast a shadow which was also about 20 minutes of arc long. There was pack ice all around except in a path as wide as the iceberg and
about four times as long to the south of it. This, of course, was far north of the area where Titanic struck the iceberg, and from what I understand there are lots of bergs in that area this season...
-FER
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