Charts 1920

January/February

Jan 8 4718’N 4638’W a berg.
Jan 16 4857’N 4708’W a large berg.
Jan 24 4630’N 4740’W to 4640’N 4620’W steamed through fields of ice and numerous growlers.
Jan 25 4658’N 4539’W passed through field ice and loose ice flakes.
Jan 25 SS “Rotterdam” [cf above] 4658’N 4539’W steamed for several hours through a field of ice which was visible on both sides as far as the eye could see and was drifting from north to south.
Jan 25 4622’N 4512’W a large berg.
Jan 25 4620’N 4630’W to 4517’N 48W field ice and small growlers.
Jan 26 4246’N 5118’N a berg 200′ high and 500′ long with small bergs in vicinity.
Jan 26 46N 4740’W a berg of medium size.
Jan 26 4502’N 5512’W a berg.
Jan 27 from 4550’N 4820’W to 4643’N 4705’W field ice.
Jan 28 4529’N 4753’W several patches field ice extending in NE to SW direction.
Jan 28 4527’N 4815’W encountered light field and snow ice and sailed through it for 4 hours.
Jan 30 4558’N 4424’W growlers and field ice for 3m.
Feb 2 4350’N 49W passed through extensive field ice lying NE and SW for ~8m.
Feb 2 4730’N 50W to 4720’N 4930’W field ice; 4730’N 4940’W a small berg; 4758’N 4732’W, 2 bergs.
Feb 4 4409’N 4710’W a large berg.
Feb 4 4619’N 4620’W a growler; 4616’N 4620’W a small berg; 4352’N 4902’W field ice.
Feb 6 4532’N 44W growlers and large quantities of ice.
Feb 6 46N 4501’W a large berg.
Feb 6 4550’N 55W several small growlers and some field ice.
Feb 6 SS “Mercian” 4403’N 4840’W passed field ice for 25m.
Feb 6 46N 4530’W to 4510’N 4640’W field ice.
Feb 6-7 SS “Galtymore” from 4426’N 4848’W to 4348’N 4919’W passed field ice extending to the NW as far as could be seen. Clear water could be seen ~2m south of the line connecting the above positions.
Feb 9 4404’N 5038’W several small growlers and small broken ice.
Feb 9 4410’N 4848’W field ice.
Feb 9 4449’N 4723’W field ice.
Feb 9 4613’N 4622’W a large field of ice; cleared it in 45N 4835’W; 4545’N 4748’W a large berg; 4545’N 4810’W a large berg; 4540’N 4825’W a large berg.
Feb 10 4510’N 4759’W entered field ice. Steamed on a southerly course and cleared the ice in 4423’N 4837’W.
Feb 10 4435’N 4830’W encountered field ice ~5m in extent.
Feb 10 4413’N 4855’W steamed north of a field of soft ice ~1,200′ wide extending southward as far as could be seen.
Feb 10-12 4714’N 4710’W to 4647’N 5047’W field ice from 6″ to 12″ thick.
Feb 11 St. John’s: SS “Prospero” caught in the ice off the Fogo Islands.
Feb 11 4418’N 4839’W to 4405’N 4856’W field ice.
Feb 11 4330’N 4920’W a considerable amount of small ice.
Feb 12 4416’N 4835’W field ice.
Feb 12 4634’N 5304’W to 4632’N 5308’W soft field ice.
Feb 13 4630’N 46W encountered field ice, bergs and growlers.
Feb 13 4550’N 5650′ or 40’W to 4537’N 5716’W field ice from 1″ to 3″ thick.
Feb 14 46N 4630’W field ice, bergs and growlers.
Feb 15 4524’N 4729’W growlers and bergs; some of the bergs were 200′ high and the growlers 5′ to 10′ high. Feb 15-17 SS “Tullamore” for Boston 4520’N 48W saw 4 very large bergs; 17th, numerous growlers were ob served in the morning in 4645’N 4630’W, she was again forced to steer out of her course to avoid a large field of ice and several bergs.
Feb 20 Lunenburg: Vessels dragged anchors and damaged ashore and in the ice in hurricane winds.
Feb 20 US Shipping Board SS “Orion” imprisoned for several days 200m off the Newfoundland coast liberated by sealer “Thetis”.
Feb 25 Issue: “Prospero” arrived Twillingate after being caught in the ice for 8 weeks.

March

Mar 8 SS “Henrik Lund” put in at Dartmouth with bows badly damage by ice.
Mar 9 4345’N 4823’W a large berg ~ 500′ long and 110′ high.
Mar 10 4340’N 4808’W a large berg; 4328’N 4856’W, 3 small bergs.
Mar 15 4406’N 4835’W a very large berg.
Mar 20 4536’N 4740’W, 2 small growlers.
Mar 21 3802’N 4038’W a piece of ice ~30′ long and 3′ high.
Mar 22 4747’N 4622’W to 4732’N 4542’W, 3 large bergs; and 4747’N 4520’W a large berg ~100′ high.
Mar 23 4647’N 4704’W a small berg.

April

Apr 6 SS “Stockholm” at Gothenburg from New York leaking after collision with ice floes during voyage.
Apr 18 SS “Ernemore” from 4812’N 4748’W, 26 hours clearing field ice directly in track of westbound steamers to 4702’N 4734’W, the field studded with innumerable growlers and several large and medium sized bergs.
Apr 19 “Seneca” reports no ice south of 4540’N.
Apr 20 4829’N 420’W to 4747’N 4552’W numerous bergs and growlers. From the latter position to 4541’N 4644’W field ice with numerous bergs and growlers.
Apr 21 4637’N 4649’W heavy field ice with small growlers extending for a radius of 1m.
Apr 22 SS “Wampum” from Glasgow to Boston at Sydney having received damage to bows by ice.
Apr 22 4808’N 4740’W to 4654’N 4750’W numerous large bergs and growlers.
Apr 28 4430’N 4845’W small bergs.

May 1 4349’N 47W a berg.
May 1 4340’N between 4740’W and 49W, 4 large bergs.
May 2 4357’N 4842’W field ice and numerous bergs.
May 3 SS “Turret Crown” from Newport,E. for Hampton Roads wirelessed she had hole after collision with iceberg (presumably at 4508’N 4846’W with several bergs within a 20m radius) and was proceeding to New York.
May 6 Between 42N and 43N and 47W and 50W bergs reported.
May 8 “Seneca”: Bergs and field ice reported between 42N and 45N and 47W and 50W. Recommend all transatlantic steamers keep south of 42N in passing the Grand Banks.