Titanic iceberg warning ship In discovered at the bottom of Irish Sea

SS Mesaba finally located by experts using cutting-edge sonar technology

- ALEX BARTON

THE ship which sent an iceberg warning to the Titanic has been found on the bed of the Irish Sea.

The merchant steamship SS Mesaba transmitted a caution signal to the ill-fated liner while it crossed the Atlantic.

The message was received but never reached the bridge.

Later that night the "unsinkable" Titanic hit an iceberg and plummeted nearly two-and-a-half miles to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage.

After the Belfast-built liner went down on April 15, 1912, 1,500 lives were lost on what has become the world's most famous shipwreck.

The SS Mesaba continued as a merchant ship for six more years before being torpedoed by a German U-boat while part of a convoy in September 1918.

It was sunk by the submarine U-118 04 of the Kriegsmarine while the convoy made a return voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia.