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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... Ship 59 Another Titanic Disaster 65 Old Times on Trout Creek 68 Free and Easy 88 United for War 96 Toronto is in ... Ships 168 Like Cordwood 169 Surreal 176 Our Lady of the Sick Then We'll Anchor in the. PART ONE PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE ...
... ship, which sank long ago in the Gulf of St Lawrence, and our Benefit Banquet will help to fund it. The courses are such as First Class might have enjoyed on the fatal night, exactly 84 years before. Quite the thing to do, ever since ...
... ship to go down with 1,102 on board, he went from skipper of the Empress to 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 ...
... ship — there must be guidelines for preservation, otherwise we are stealing her from our children.” Marschall ends by quoting Old Rose, the fictional heroine of Cameron's Titanic. That vessel on the Atlantic's floor, she insisted, was ...
... . “A thousand killed on her but so what — then the war, thousands and thousands every week.” Forgotten Empress: horrific World War I news diminished memories of this ship — except among Salvationists, many 18 LOSING THE EMPRESS.
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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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