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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... stand for the heart. To the dogs with the head.” Having written the ultimate shipwreck novel, Moby-Dick, he deserves notice. Happenstance once found me in the company of oceanographer Robert Ballard, who sleuthed the Titanic's final ...
... duty by yourfamilies. Help your comrades. Make Canada a home that will be a credit to the old land. Put Godfirst. Stand by the Army. Save your souls. Meet me in heaven! IN FEAR FOR YOUR LIFE I N 1988, WRITING THE 23 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE ...
... Stand by for distress signal. We have hit something.” Already Ferguson was struggling against the steep list. But from Father Point came the instant reply: “OK. Here we are.” Ferguson had enough time to add, “SOS, we have hit something ...
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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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