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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... young men — in four-part harmony — rose with clarity into the still air.” Light-hearted Ensign Oliver Mardell, leading choruses of “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep,” would make everyone dip down at the word “deep.” A game organized by ...
... young people working here comes a cordial welcome and more — the phone number of David Saint-Pierre, a local man deeply knowledgeable about the Empress. Many tales are told of the Titanic, and the Empress of Ireland has a melodramatic ...
... Young Ronald Ferguson, in pyjamas, used this very transmitter to type out his 1:56 a.m. message in Morse code — slowly, to make sure the import would be grasped: “Stand by for distress signal. We have hit something.” Already Ferguson ...
... young African-American playing Motown on his cassette player. “Are you into hip-hop?” I ask. Advertisement for Titanic — Ship of Dreams. Instantly he switches over to a cassette in that genre, exclaiming, “I produce hip-hop — I'm the ...
... like.'” We are guided within by a young woman costumed as in 1912. “Aren't you glad you're First Class?” she asks, giving us the status of “investors.” Portrayed just ahead are J. Bruce Ismay, White Star's managing 55 BLESSINGS.
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |