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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... Titanic Ship 59 Another Titanic Disaster 65 Old Times on Trout Creek 68 Free and Easy 88 United for War 96 Toronto is in Tears; Canada Mourns 108 PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH The Real End is the Journey 125 Somebody's Bad Luck 135 ...
... Titanic's final resting-place. This man of science told me that in youth, he locked his grandmother and himself in a room for all-out argument to make her accept evolutionary theory. Score one for the head. With my own evangelistic ...
... Titanic became a top-grossing film: in one Halifax restaurant, shipwreck buffs do the First Class menu while an actor circulates in the guise of her doomed captain. Our $150-a-plate meal evokes the glory days of “Empress” liners once ...
... Titanic fame, delivered its findings. One of the ships must have altered course in the fog, and Mersey blamed the Storstad. Yet Zeni, going over the court transcript, began to see through testimony given by the Empress's captain, Henry ...
... Titanic, heaps praise on the old liners. “These grand vessels are important, they are time capsules of history,” he says. “They belong to everyone, and must not become pillage for quick commercial gain.” Straight talk: the sunken ...
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |