Mysterious bundle washes up on UK beach - and it could be from the Titanic
The collection of dirty, rubber sheets could have been carried all the way from the watery resting place of the famous ship by currants that regularly bring items to the UK
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The collection of dirty, rubber sheets could have been carried all the way from the watery resting place of the famous ship by currants that regularly bring items to the UK
SAINT JOHN, N.B. -- The tragic tale of the Titanic still captures attention more than 100 years after the passenger liner sank in the North Atlantic 600 km southeast of Cape Race, N.L. Now, Canadian researchers are investigating the authenticity of a message in a bottle allegedly thrown from the liner before it went down. Four years ago, a family walking along the shores of the Hopewell Rocks near Hopewell Cape, N.B., stumbled upon a maritime mystery. It was a still-sealed bottle with a message inside -- a letter dated April 13, 1912 -- and signed by Mathilde Lefebvre. That's the nam...
This August 2019 photo courtesy of Atlantic Productions shows the latest image of the bow of RMS Titanic which rests 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) below the Atlantic Ocean, and 370 miles (595kms) south of Newfoundland, Canada. - Photo by HO /AFP/Getty Images Article content MONTREAL — Researchers from Universite du Quebec a Rimouski are trying to solve the mystery about whether a letter in a bottle washed up in New Brunswick in 2017 is from a young victim of the Titanic. The letter was purportedly written by Mathilde Lefevbre, a 12-year-old schoolgirl from northern France who was a passenge...
Sidhartha Banerjee A letter from a bottle that washed up in New Brunswick in 2017 is shown in an undated handout photo. A team of researchers from Université du Québec à Rimouski are trying to solve the mystery of whether a letter in a bottle that washed up in New Brunswick in 2017 was indeed from a young victim of Titanic shipwreck or simply a hoax. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, N. Beaudry, UQAR *MANDATORY CREDIT* May 15, 2021 - 4:00 AM MONTREAL - Researchers from Université du Québec à Rimouski are trying to solve the mystery about whether a letter in a bott...
Real or hoax? Quebec scholars probe mystery letter allegedly from Titanic passenger Poll Independent A letter from a bottle that washed up in New Brunswick in 2017 is shown in an undated handout photo. A team of researchers from Université du Québec à Rimouski are trying to solve the mystery of whether a letter in a bottle that washed up in New Brunswick in 2017 was indeed from a young victim of Titanic shipwreck or simply a hoax. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, N. Beaudry, UQAR *MANDATORY CREDIT* MONTREAL – Researchers from Université du Québec à Rimouski are trying to solve the...