Losing the Empress: A Personal Journey : the Empress of Ireland's Enduring ShadowDundurn, 2000 - 253 páginas The Empress of Ireland's last voyage ended on May 29, 1914, when she was rammed by a Norwegian coal-carrier in a fog patch on the St. Lawrence River near Rimouski. For David Creighton, her voyage still continues. In Losing the Empress, Creighton delves into the lives of his grandparents - Salvation Army officers who were lost on the Empress - and the lives of their five orphaned children who would soon be plunged into World War I. His discoveries reveal amazing details about the Empress, which sank in fourteen minutes with a greater loss of life than the Titanic disaster. Shipwreck nostalgia, last voyage dinners, Salvationists, the British Empire and the world wars fought to preserve it; everything comes into focus when the author joins Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard on a film shoot at the sunken liner's site. Losing the Empress lyrically traces a personal journey into the past and into the future. |
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... Hall, once regularly filled with steamer trunks of those sailing on CPR liners. Supreme among these was the second Empress of Britain, on which monarchs and movie stars once sailed. There is a photo of an uncle, Arthur Creighton, in his ...
... Hall, will later be reprinted with Xs to mark those who survive — only nine out of the thirty-nine who sail now. Here is Captain Edward Dodd, sub-editor of the War Cry, writing a despatch shortly to be mailed: From the train to the ...
... hall three times each Sunday — two services, plus Sunday school in mid-afternoon — and I had a friend, Ken McGillivray, who endured the same routine. One night, edgy perhaps from go-to-meeting fatigue, we had a big fistfight outside the ...
... Hall. “To the True and Faithful Remaining,” he began — ones that didn't get to go. “The party, after a strenuous day of toil and excitement, are asleep, having partaken rather more sumptuously than is the accustomed habit of members of ...
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51 | |
PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |