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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... Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, took keen interest in the Quebec City inquiry. “A charge of neglect and indifference in the matter of saving lives is the cruellest blow,” he noted. “The resentful sea-gods never do 16 LOSING THE EMPRESS.
... never do sleep,” and “mere mortals condemned to unending vigilance are no match for them.” The dessert finally arrives, fruit within a sturdy little dark-chocolate piano nobody knows how to disassemble politely. (Best way: pick up and ...
... Never really got noticed,” he 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 ...
... never crossed the Atlantic before. This is only part of Canada's four-hundred-strong delegation to the Congress, but it includes the saintly commissioner, David Rees, now leaning meditatively on a railing. The 717 passengers filling ...
... never paid a visit and then, at 93, she was no more. The last of the five Empress orphans. Belatedly I wrote a clan history. The Empress disaster was at the centre of all, I found. I became absorbed in its meanings. One night I went ...
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |