Researchers have reportedly discovered the merchant steamship SS Mesaba, which is known in history for sending an iceberg warning to the RMS Titanic. The Mesaba was torpedoed by a German U-Boat in 1918 on a voyage to Philadelphia from the U.K., and was finally found over a hundred years after it sank in the Irish Sea.
The two ships passed each other in 1912, and the radio warning apparently never made it to the Titanic’s bridge, dooming it to its horrible crash. Six years later, when the Mesaba itself sank, 20 people lost their lives including its commander.
The scientists from were using a new scanning technology referred to as “multibeam sonar,” and the SS Mesaba was one of nearly three-hundred vessels including ships, subs and others that were on the floor of the Irish Sea. This research project has been a collaboration between Bangor University and Bournemouth University.
The aim of the investigations, according to Dr. Michael Roberts was “to better understand how objects on the surface interact with physical and biological processes, which in turn can help scientists support the development and growth of the marine energy sector.”
