The ship that sent an iceberg warning to the Titanic before the ocean liner sank
In 1912, the merchant steamer Mesaba crossedAtlantic and sent a radio message to the Titanic to save it. The ship received the message. Later that night, the supposedly unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage, with the loss of 1,500 lives. The SS Mesaba remained a merchant ship for the next six years.
Using state-of-the-art multi-beam sonar, researchers at Bangor University were finally able to accurately identify the wreck and uncovered its location for the first time.
Multibeam sonar image of the SS Mesaba lying on the seabed in the Irish Sea.
Credit: Bangor University
For the marine archaeologist, multi-beam sonarmay be as effective as aerial photography for landscape archaeology. The device can image the seabed in such detail that sonar images can reveal details of the superstructure.
SS Mesaba was one of 273 wreckslying on 12,070 km² of the Irish Sea, which were scanned and compared with the British Hydrographic Office wreck database and other sources.
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