A black and white photo of an iceberg claimed to be the one that took around 1,500 lives was taken two days before the sinking.
Captain W Wood who served on board the SS Etonian, was interested in photography and captured the image of the iceberg on his film camera.
He wrote the geographic coordinates on the note that he had which is similar to the geographic coordinates where Titanic sunk 40 hours later.
When the seaman got to New York, he had the photo printed and sent a copy to his great-grandfather, with a later he wrote, “I am sending you a sea picture, the Etonian running before a gale and the iceberg that sank the Titanic”.
“We crossed the ice tracks 40hrs before her and in daylight, so saw the ice easily and I got a picture”. He added.
Even there are photos have been taken, Wood’s photograph is the most matches and now worth around £12,000.
“There were never any photographs taken on board the Titanic of the iceberg, only images of ones in the same area in the days before and after. But Captain Wood’s photograph must be the most likely of all of these images. Fredrick Fleet was the lookout who first spotted the iceberg and he later drew a sketch of it, as did crew member and eye-witness Joseph Scarrott.” said auctioneer Andrew Aldridge.
Source: Daily Mail
