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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... Salvationists were seriously injured: blood of the martyrs. Catholics and Salvationists shared a conviction that heaven lay beyond this earth — golden saints for one, golden streets for the other. Yet Quebeckers, who saw themselves as ...
... remarks. “A thousand killed on her but so what — then the war, thousands and thousands every week.” Forgotten Empress: horrific World War I news diminished memories of this ship — except among Salvationists, many 18 LOSING THE EMPRESS.
... Salvationists, many of whom still recall the tragedy in detail. May 28, 1914 comes again to the mind's eye. The Empress ofIreland, on a lovely afternoon, is ready to sail once more. Sixteen steel lifeboats line the boat-deck, a ...
... Salvationists make up the bulk of 253 in Second Class. Commissioner David Rees (right) at the Empress's rail on May 28, 1914. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Empress Memorial. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre). 20 LOSING THE ...
A Personal Journey : the Empress of Ireland's Enduring Shadow David Creighton. Salvationists make up the bulk of 253 in Second Class. Highsociety types are sparse, but among the eighty-seven in First Class is plump Ethel Sabina Grundy ...
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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 |
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Losing the Empress: A Personal Journey : the Empress of Ireland's Enduring ... David Creighton Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |