Losing the Empress: A Personal JourneyDundurn, 2000 M09 1 - 284 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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... The Most Perfect Rainbow From the New World In the Cabin for the Night The Head and the Heart Lost Liners The Farm Acknowledgements 178 184 185 195 208 218 225 230 242 245 254 For Fred We are now oriented to the future, and.
... cabin on that explorer's vessel. The bar gives a sweeping view of the river whose name was given by Cartier, sailing it first on the feast-day of St. Laurent. Then back to the dinner. Those at my table are from Rimouski, opposite where ...
... cabin. And here was that very item. Keith later identified the main cause of death: “It was the cold that fixed us; that water was like ice.” Here also was a gold-plated cornet used in performances by the 1914 Staff Band, formed largely ...
... cabin: “The last I saw of poor Gray he was sitting up in his bunk rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He is gone, poor fellow.” Brisk Army music started our meeting off. “With steady pace the pilgrim moves / Toward the blissful shore ...
... cabin — there are seventy to eighty corpses in that room,” Mark recalls. Pocket watches and jewellery appearing in divers' videos show that their remains had been sorted through: “They never really thought of it as a tomb.” Currents ...
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51 | |
PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |
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