3-052-725 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Icebergs seen by Prince Leopold on his passage to Canada, 1880. 'The voyage of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold to Canada on board the fine screw steam-ship Sardinian, of the Allan line of Royal Mail service from Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal, was attended with some unusual experiences. On the edge of the Banks of Newfoundland, which the ship passed on the 19th May, the icebergs were very numerous, and of the largest size known in these latitudes. The one represented in our Illustration was 300 feet or 350 feet high. On the 21st May, when entering the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Cape Ray, the ship met with field-ice extending right across the gulf, and had to force her passage through the ice for a distance of twenty-four miles. Two vessels - one a steamer, the other a merchant-ship - were observed to be fast in the ice, while several others were kept waiting outside. It is very seldom that so much ice, or any icebergs, are to be seen in those parts at this time of the year. Our Illustrations are from Sketches by one of the passengers on board the Sardinian'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.