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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... boat, actually, a hard fact I discreetly omit). A grandson of David and Bertha Creighton, passengers on the Empress! They arrange to have me introduced as such to the gathering. Prolonged applause, and a kind of homage: all night I am ...
... boat special to these Quebeckers? It brings out their compassion, there is patrimonie (with touristic tie-in) as well as that ocean-liner magic: icon of the new. One man talks at length about his voyage on the QE2. In the boring jumbo ...
... boat-deck, a Englehart collapsible under each — more than enough for all, as required after the Titanic disaster — and ten bulkheads reinforce the interior, one dividing the twinned boiler rooms. Losing the Empress, with ninety-five ...
... boat was all slanty, so we couldn't hardly walk. Then all at once the boat was covered with water and went rightfrom under myfeet. Iwent under the water and then Ifound a piece of board and cried. Bandmaster Edward Hanagan, wife Edith ...
... boat in terms of the Army's deatheuphemism, “promoted to glory.” Her victims entering the celestial beyond, breathing Earth's air no more, apotheosized. Now I was forced to see it as a big furry sea monster. The ship was actually there ...
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |