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Message: [QUOTE="Samuel Halpern, post: 444638, member: 137378"] Senator SMITH. Did you see icebergs the next morning? Mr. STENGEL. I guess you could. They were all around. You could see them. As soon as we landed down into the water, as soon as we were afloat, you could see icebergs all around, because we thought they were sailing vessels at first, and began pulling this way, and then turning around and going the other way. They were in sight all along the horizon. Senator SMITH. Were you menaced in any way, after you got into the water in this emergency boat, by ice? Mr. STENGEL. No, sir. Senator SMITH. How far away was it from you, apparently? Mr. STENGEL. It was quite a ways, but you could see the outline in the dusk. Senator SMITH. Describe these icebergs. How large were they? Mr. STENGEL. There was one of them, particularly, that I noticed, a very large one, which looked something like the Rock of Gibraltar; it was high at one point, and another point came up at the other end, about the same shape as the rock of Gibraltar. Senator SMITH. How did it compare with size of the Titanic? Mr. STENGEL. I was a good ways off. It was not quite as large as the Titanic but it was an enormous, large iceberg. [/QUOTE]