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Message: [QUOTE="Jim Currie, post: 444634, member: 144215"] Steven, there is a verbal description of the berg given by AB Joseph Scarrott... he said "[I]I went and looked over the rail there and I saw an iceberg that I took it we had struck. It would be abaft the beam then - abaft the starboard beam.... it struck me at the time that it resembled the Rock of Gibraltar looking at it from Europa Point. It looked very much the same shape as that, only much smaller.... As you approach Gibraltar - it seemed that shape. The highest point would be on my right, as it appeared to me.[/I] The Captain Wood photograph was not taken in a Gale. A Gale in that part of the world would have had enormous breakers around the base of a berg and loads of spray. Besides which, the sea would have long white streaks on its surface. The berg in that picture is not the shape of Gibraltar as you approach it. In fact, this is what Barratt was talking about: [ATTACH type="full"]75682[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]75683[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]