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Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck
By Eve Lazarus
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By Eve Lazarus
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The poignant and very human drama of a 1914 maritime disaster that claimed the lives of more passengers than the Titanic
On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship. In the fourteen minutes it took for the Empr...