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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... diver, will deliver an illustrated talk. Refreshments and fellowship to follow.” At the George Railton Heritage Centre, on Bayview, I received a warm welcome as always at such Army functions. The centre's display of Empress artifacts ...
... divers rediscovering her only on July 17, 1964. An eccentric Montreal accountant, Philippe Beaudry, then became ... dives. With three men living in my own community, Burlington, he founded an Empress of Ireland Historical Society. This ...
... bodies,” said the diver. “There is something that draws me to it; the whole history — it draws me back.” The same dark fascination now claimed me. LOSING THE EMPRESS F OR ME THE SALVATION Army came 31 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
... was thought that nobody would go to see them in the Valley of the Tombs. The same with the Empress: in a few years, many will regret that it is empty. I ask about the divers. “They just don't get along, 43 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
A Personal Journey David Creighton. I ask about the divers. “They just don't get along, I think, all that competition — some act as though this is their wreck, just for having taken more artifacts.” He has heard of divers cutting ...
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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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