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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... plays a farewell hymn, deeply prophetic: God be with you till we meet again! Keep love's bannerfloating o'er you;Smite death's threatening wave before you;God be with you till we meet again! Inhaling evergreen fragrance in the dark, I ...
... played songs of redemption. Then bystanders were invited to follow it back to the citadel, join in our fellowship: such was the expectation. Public exposure of this kind calls for a strong faith. And those entering Army work will keep ...
... played comical piano tunes of his own composition as the Empress's last journey commenced. When a hymn sing-along followed, Bert asked him to play There is a Sweet Rest in Heaven for the newlyweds. As it turned out, not they but the ...
... played Gounod's “Funeral March of a Marionette” at dinner, put down its instruments at nine. Music room, Empress ofIreland. (Illustrated London News, June 6, 1914) My parallel journey shortly bypasses Rivière-du-Loup: 10 p.m. their time ...
... plays on the car radio. David had one more letter to write, a humorous one to friends at the Army's Toronto headquarters down by City Hall. “To the True and Faithful Remaining,” he began — ones that didn't get to go. “The party, after a ...
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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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