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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... lifeboat commander, pulling aboard as many wretched survivors as he could. Kendall's portrait in the June 6, 1914 Illustrated London News is the best: scowl of command, gold braid and brass buttons, a backward lean in his chair. Written ...
... lifeboats, the bridge, the telegraph post, and a gangway. Ancient ceremony at the Basilica now gives way to multimedia liturgies. And similar enhancements await the liner from which my grandparents, in Salvation Army terminology, were ...
... lifeboats line the boat-deck, a Englehart collapsible under each — more than enough for all, as required after the Titanic disaster — and ten bulkheads reinforce the interior, one dividing the twinned boiler rooms. Losing the Empress ...
... . The ship was actually there in space and time, a dream-image no longer. Soegstrom's slides showed the crow's nest from which the Storstad had been sighted. A decomposing lifeboat, still in its davits. 30 LOSING THE EMPRESS.
A Personal Journey David Creighton. had been sighted. A decomposing lifeboat, still in its davits. A broken skylight over the music room. And a grand piano resting there now, upside down. To Soegtrop, always it seemed as though “somebody ...
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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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