FOUND! 1st pic of the iceberg that sank Titanic
THE FIRST PHOTO of the mountainous iceberg that destroyed the Titanic — and sent 1,514 of her passengers to a watery grave in the frigid North Atlantic — has finally surfaced.
A century after the supposedly unsinkable ship went down in the inky darkness on April 15, 1912, a picture showing the killer berg floating on a still and frozen horizon is up for auction.
The haunting, black-and-white shot was taken less than 10 hours after the horrific maritime catastrophe killed Astors, Guggenheims and Strauses — the 1% of their era — along with hundreds of poor families in steerage.
Racing to the rescue as England’s pride and joy went down on her maiden voyage was the RMS Carpathia, which plucked 705 survivors from lifeboats and ferried them to the Titanic’s destination, the West Side of Manhattan.
It was onboard the Carpathia that passen- ger Mabel Fenwick captured the floating ice mass that took down the great ship. The hull of one of the Titanic’s lifeboats can be seen in the top right corner of the historic image.
“Few images in history can be more chillling than that iceberg off in the horizon,” said d Bobby Livingston, of New Hampshire-based d RR Auction.
RR is selling 180 Titanic-related lots in an n online auction from April 19 to April 26. Also o up for bid: One of the Titanic’s seven surviving deck chairs and a letter from bandleader er Wallace Hartley, who famously played as the e ship went down.