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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... wife. Here too is big-game hunter Sir Henry Seton-Karr. David Creighton has written just-in-case letters to two brothers, and when safely aboard will compose another to his family, that ends: “Our very best affection & love to all.” A ...
... wife. For the next eighty years Grace would often repeat her story, but most awesome was the. Reorganized Staff Band, 1917. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Globe headlines, August 1, 1910. 27 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
... wife Edith, daughter Grace. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Here was one of the sashes, white with the crimson crowns, used at the 1914 Congress in London to drape empty chairs where Canadian delegates would have sat. It was ...
... wife: could this be the villain, fleeing with his mistress disguised as a boy? Kendall alerted Scotland Yard by telegraph, a detective sailed for Canada by a faster boat, and at Father Point on the St. Lawrence the couple was detained ...
... wife later told of Kendall lying face down, still in his dripping uniform, as he cried, “Why didn't they let me drown? Why didn't they let me drown?” Kendall might have been referring to his rescuers or, in terms by which Joseph Conrad ...
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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 |