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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... sinking). O. N FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1998, driving to Quebec City for a gala dinner, I have a flat tire just shy of my goal. And me in my best suit. A wheel bolt objects to being unscrewed, so I must ease my Colt off the highway to enlist a car ...
... sinking was mentioned. All very solemn. David Creighton the Salvation Army officer: too bad, but he's gone and I'm alive now. Everything changed when my Aunt Edith died in 1988. In all the years of her old age I never paid a visit and ...
... sinking, Till We Meet Again. The photo also showed David Creighton's oldest son, Wilfred, with a D wrongly substituted for his first name. Twenty years old when he and four siblings fell under the Empress's shadow, Wilfred held close to ...
... sinking Empress: “At first I didn't know what it was; it was like one long, moaning sound.” Henry Kendall was thrown overboard as the Empress's twin funnels hit the water. Soon picked up by a lifeboat and taken to the Storstad, he ...
... sinking fast, send help.” Asked to give the liner's location, he inaccurately replied, “Twenty minutes past Rimouski,” then luckily was able to reach the water. He made it to the Storstad. As an old man, invited back to Rimouski in 1980 ...
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |