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the day of a largely overlooked maritime calamity. For it was in the pre-dawn hours of that day that the liner Empress of Ireland collided with another ship and sank on the St. Lawrence River.
One thousand sink with Empress of Ireland in Gulf of St. Lawrence QUEBEC, May 29, 1914 (UP) - The big Canadian Pacific Transatlantic liner Empress of Ireland was sunk early today in collision with ...
The young man, never to be seen again, was among 1,012 killed that foggy night when the Empress of Ireland collided with a freighter off Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula and plunged beneath the surface in ...
The Empress of Ireland is “Canada’s Titanic,” and no person better links the two doomed ships than does William Clark, who had the best or worst luck of most anyone on the high seas.
The first scientific expedition to explore the wreck of the Empress of Ireland since the 1914 sinking of the Liverpool-bound passenger liner got underway Thursday in the St. Lawrence River Only 465 of ...
One of the worst Canadian shipwrecks had happened over night: The Empress of Ireland sank, and over a thousand people died. That wreck is being commemorated in Rimouski this week, and our Marika ...
The Empress of Ireland is “Canada’s Titanic,” and no person better links the two doomed ships than does William Clark, who had the best or worst luck of most anyone on the high seas.
The young man, never to be seen again, was among 1,012 killed that foggy night when the Empress of Ireland collided with a freighter off Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula and plunged beneath the surface ...