108 years after the doomed maiden voyage of a huge ship, a photograph of the very iceberg that sank it appeared.
While the sinking of the Titanic has long been one of the most talked about disasters in history, what is not entirely well known is the large chunk of ice the ship crashed into before it sank.
This silent killer, 121 meters long and weighing 1.5 million tons, was responsible for the deaths of more than 1,500 people who died in the icy waters of the Atlantic.
As it turned out, there are photographs of this iceberg taken from other ships. One of them was taken two days before the Titanic sank. It was made from the steamer Eaton, a passenger ship that also crossed the Atlantic at about the same time.
The ship's captain wrote down the coordinates of the photo on the back of the photo before sending it along with a handwritten note to his grandfather upon arriving in New York.
“I am sending you this photo, taken by me. This is the iceberg that sank the Titanic,”he wrote. "We met him 40 hours before the disaster."
The note and photo will be sold and are expected to bring in about $ 15,000 at auction.