CHARTING ICEBERGS
NORTH ATLANTIC PATROL. Vancouver, May 20, The Iceberg Patrol, jointly conducted bv Canada , and the United States since the Titanic disaster in 1912, is becoming more and more efficient in tracing the source, location and speed of movement of these huge blocks of ice that drift from the Greenland ice cap and menace navigation in the North Atlantic. These bergs range in size from a cottage piano to the world’s tallest building, or length of a city block. Years of research have resulted in determining that only one-eighth of an iceberg is above the water’s level. When a berg is located, its size, position, and rate of drift, as well as the nature of the sea and the weather condition, are immediately broadcast by the ships of the patrol to all vessels in the North Atlantic. The latest ship to be rescued from the icefield is the English freighter Titania, which was damaged in stem and stem, when she was crushed by the ice.
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Southland Times, Issue 25314, 18 June 1935, Page 7
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166CHARTING ICEBERGS Southland Times, Issue 25314, 18 June 1935, Page 7
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