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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... 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 Canadian Pacific office before a picture of the Britain ...
... sail 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 ...
... sailing. England to New York — it couldn't be any better, that huge ship entering the harbour. People in New York were dying to see it come in.” In Washington I visit the 1931 Women's Titanic Memorial, at 6th and N Streets SE ...
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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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