Of course it's not definitive, but in my opinion it is the most likely candidate of any of the bergs that were spotted and documented after the disaster. Make Iceberg memes in seconds with Piata Farms - the free. Rehorek's photo was never published, and wasn't discovered until the early 2000s in a private collection, I believe. It was noted that the right side of the berg had obvious damage where some of it had been sheared off. The German liner SS Bremen sailed through the area where the Titanic sank some days later, and spotted wreckage and bodies, and there was a lone iceberg that passenger Stephen Rehorek photographed: While it's quite possible the correct iceberg was never identified, the candidate that most resembles Scarrott's account was only discovered a couple of decades ago. Scarrott later drew a sketch of the berg as he remembered it:
Like this:Īnd here's the Rock of Gibraltar from the point of view as Scarrott described: "Lion couchant" refers to a lion lying on its legs upright, with its head raised. The highest point would be on my right, as it appeared to me." Scarrott: "As you approach Gibraltar - it seemed that shape. The Commissioner: "Like a lion couchant?" It looked very much the same shape as that, only much smaller." Scarrott: " Well, it struck me at the time that it resembled the Rock of Gibraltar looking at it from Europa Point. The best survivor account of the iceberg came from crew member Joseph Scarrott, who testified at the British Inquiry that he was on the Forecastle Deck at the time of the collision and thus got a good look at the berg as they passed it.
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