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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... once found me in the company of oceanographer Robert Ballard, who sleuthed the Titanic's final resting-place. This man of science told me that in youth, he locked his grandmother and himself in a room for all-out argument to make her ...
... once operated by a railway, the Canadian Pacific. Their route was more northerly than the one out of New York, taking in the St Lawrence and thus, a shorter span of the Atlantic. My new friends ask why I drove all this way. As a ...
... once regularly filled with steamer trunks of those sailing on CPR liners. Supreme among these was the second Empress of Britain, on which monarchs and movie stars once sailed. There is a photo of an uncle, Arthur Creighton, in his ...
... once more. Sixteen steel 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 ...
... once the boat was covered with water and went rightfrom under myfeet. Iwent under the water and then Ifound a piece of board and cried. Bandmaster Edward Hanagan, wife Edith, daughter Grace. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Here ...
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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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