Download or read book The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland written by Logan Marshall and published by Philadelpia? : s.n.. This book was released on 1914 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book RMS Empress of Ireland written by Derek Grout and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the tragic history of the ship whose sinking was as disastrous as the Titanic’s. When we think of a major marine disaster, the Titanic usually springs to mind. Yet a mere two years after the Titanic, a tragedy of similar proportions took place in the confines of the St. Lawrence River. On a dark night in May 1914 the Norwegian collier Storstad rammed the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland. In less than fifteen minutes, more than 1,000 people died, trapped in the ship’s hull or drowned as they were trying to escape. They died within sight of land. Despite the scale of the disaster and the fact that the ship had an excellent safety record with eight years in service, the Empress tragedy has been sadly overlooked. Now this lavishly illustrated luxury edition seeks to remedy this oversight, on the centenary of the tragic event.
Download or read book Lost Liners written by Robert D. Ballard and published by Little, Brown Canada. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Into the Mist written by Anne Renaud and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the building and early voyages of the steamship and explains how the great ocean liner sank to the bottom of the Saint Lawrence River in 1914.
Download or read book Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario written by Jim Kennard and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the stories of a number of sunken vessels on the United States territory in Lake Ontario, among them the steamer Ellsworth, the St. Peter, the Homer Warren, the schooner Etta Belle, the Coast Guard cable boat CG-56022, the schooner William Elgin, the Orcadian, the steamer Samuel F. Hodge, the W.Y. Emery, the British warship Ontario, the schooner C. Reeve, the Queen of the Lakes, the schooner Atlas, the Ocean Wave, the steamer Roberval, the U.S. Air Force C-45, the schooner Three Brothers, the steamship Nisbet Grammer, the steamship Bay State, the schooner Royal Albert, the sloop Washington, and the schooner Hartford. Appendices look at three particular locations: Ford Shoals, Mexico Bay, and the lake near Oswego.
Download or read book RMS EMPRESS of Ireland written by Derek Grout and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unspeakable written by Caroline Pignat and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her first voyage as a stewardess aboard the Empress of Ireland, Ellie is drawn to the solitary fire stoker who stands by the ship’s rail late at night, often writing in a journal. Jim. Ellie finds it hard to think of his name now. After their wonderful time in Quebec City, that awful night happened. The screams, the bodies, the frigid waters … she tries hard to tell herself that he survived, but it’s hard to believe when so many didn’t. So when Wyatt Steele, journalist at The New York Times asks her for her story, Ellie refuses. But when he shows her Jim’s journal, she jumps at the chance to be able to read it herself, to find some trace of the man she had fallen in love with, or perhaps a clue to what happened to him. There’s only one catch: she will have to tell her story to Steele and he’ll “pay” her by giving her the journal, one page at a time.
Download or read book Fourteen Minutes written by James Croall and published by London : Sphere Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 28th May, 1914, the Empress of Ireland, a 14 000 ton Canadian Pacific ocean liner, sailed from Quebec to her doom. Only hours into her voyage she ran into thick fog on the St Lawrence River, and collided with the Norwegian collier Storstad. Within fourteen minutes the vast liner had sunk to her watery grave. And over a thousand people were drowned.
Download or read book Empress of Ireland written by Derek Grout and published by Stroud, [England] : Tempus. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think of a major shipping disaster and the first that jumps into mind is that of the Titanic, the White Start liner sunk by an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
Download or read book Four Thousand Lives Lost written by Alastair Walker and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over four years, four ships were lost under different circumstances and 4,000 lives with them - but one thing linked them all: it was John Charles Bigham, Lord Mersey, who was appointed to head the inquiries into each disaster. Mersey is oftern referred to as a 'company man', or a government stooge. But is this the whole truth? Everyone has heard of Titanic and Lusitania but more passengers died when the Empress of Ireland sank in May 1914. That inquiry turned into a head-to-head between an American lawyer and a British one. Did Mersey let the right man win? Was he fair to Captain Lord of the Californian when he blamed him for the loss of so many lives on Titanic? The U-Boat that sank the Falaba with the loss of 104 lives behaved very differently to the one that torpedoed the Lusitania just six weeks later. Did Mersey reflect that in his findings or was he more interested in propaganda than truth?
Download or read book Ghost Liners written by Robert Ballard and published by Little, Brown Young Readers. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts five famous ships that have been lost at sea in modern times, the Empress of Ireland, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, the Brittanic, and the Titanic.
Download or read book Canada s Titanic written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the disaster by passengers aboard both ships *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "A blow, a ripping, the side taken out of a ship, darkness, the inrush of waters, a panic, and then in the hush the silent corpses drifting by. So with the Canadian liner. She has gone to her grave leaving a trail of sorrow behind her. Hundreds of human hearts and homes are in mourning for the loss of dear companions and friends." - Logan Marshall, The tragic story of the Empress of Ireland There is something romantic about traveling on a cruise ship, and even today, luxury cruises are considered by many to be the ultimate vacation, featuring days of fun activities in exotic locations and nights of dinner and dancing under the stars. Today even the cheapest cabins are quite luxurious, and people save for years to afford to travel by sea. However, it was not always that way, and there was a time when travelling on even the most luxurious liners could prove dangerous or even deadly. The loss of the Titanic in 1912 cast a pall over all future voyages, and in the wake of the most famous sinking in history, a number of crucial changes were made, including the requirement that there be enough lifeboats available for every passenger, a change that was codified by the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1914. That same convention also made a change to the way distress signals were used, and the British subsequently ensured that the bulkheads be raised higher up the boat to truly ensure that the compartments were watertight. Gone were the days that safety would be compromised for the comforts of the First Class. And of course, a bunch of changes were made to the way ships navigated around icebergs. In the wake of the Titanic, people tried to assure each other that a similar disaster could never happen again, but it did just two years later on a chilly night in 1914. This time, it was not an iceberg that did the damage but another vessel that sent the Empress of Ireland to her watery grave. Likewise, her passengers did not perish in the frigid Atlantic but along the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Canada. As Logan Marshall lamented, "'Those who go down to the sea in ships' was once a synonym for those who gambled with death and put their lives upon the hazard. Today the mortality at sea is less than on common carriers on land. But the futility of absolute prevention of accident is emphasized again and again. The regulation of safety makes catastrophes like that of the Empress of Ireland all the more tragic and terrible." Though the tale of the ship's fate pales in comparison to that of the Titanic, the loss of life in 1914 was nearly as great as it was in 1912. Indeed, with the Titanic's massive shadow all but obscuring the Empress of Ireland, the 1914 disaster remains one of the great little-known tragedies of the 20th century, and to this day in Canada, Canadians refer to it as "Canada's Titanic." Canada's Titanic: The History and Legacy of the RMS Empress of Ireland examines one of the 20th century's largest maritime tragedies, and the worst in Canadian history. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the RMS Empress of Ireland like never before, in no time at all.
Download or read book Forgotten Empress written by David Zeni and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beneath Dark Waters written by Eve Lazarus and published by . This book was released on 2025-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1,057 passengers and a crew of 420. 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 Empress of Ireland to sink, there was time to launch only four of the forty lifeboats, and rather than women and children first, it was everyone for themselves. Over a thousand people died that night, claiming the lives of more passengers than either the Titanic or the Lusitania, and the tragedy stands as the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history. Investigative journalist and author Eve Lazarus draws on a trove of historical documents, including small-town newspaper reports, the Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, and first-hand accounts passed down through personal letters and family lore, to tell the story of the wreck and its aftermath through the eyes of the survivors. Through these records, as well as interviews with experts and descendants of the passengers, Lazarus recounts the story from both a Canadian and a Norwegian perspective and investigates why many of the accounts regurgitated in newspapers and books for over a hundred years are wrong. The result is an absorbing and utterly stirring narrative that uncovers tales of heroism and sacrifice, human endurance, and modern-day shipwreck hunters. Beneath Dark Waters is an epic chronicle that restores the Empress of Ireland--largely forgotten in the shadow of the Titanic disaster--as well as its survivors and victims to their rightful place in maritime history. With black-and-white photos.
Download or read book The Ship of Dreams written by Gareth Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Western world. “While there are many Titanic books, this is one readers will consider a favorite” (Voyage). In April 1912, six notable people were among those privileged to experience the height of luxury—first class passage on “the ship of dreams,” the RMS Titanic: Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; son of the British Empire Tommy Andrews; American captain of industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish-American immigrant Ida Straus; and American model and movie star Dorothy Gibson. Within a week of setting sail, they were all caught up in the horrifying disaster of the Titanic’s sinking, one of the biggest news stories of the century. Today, we can see their stories and the Titanic’s voyage as the beginning of the end of the established hierarchy of the Edwardian era. Writing in his signature elegant prose and using previously unpublished sources, deck plans, journal entries, and surviving artifacts, Gareth Russell peers through the portholes of these first-class travelers to immerse us in a time of unprecedented change in British and American history. Through their intertwining lives, he examines social, technological, political, and economic forces such as the nuances of the British class system, the explosion of competition in the shipping trade, the birth of the movie industry, the Irish Home Rule Crisis, and the Jewish-American immigrant experience while also recounting their intimate stories of bravery, tragedy, and selflessness. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white photographs, this is “a beautiful requiem” (The Wall Street Journal) in which “readers get the story of this particular floating Tower of Babel in riveting detail, and with all the wider context they could want” (Christian Science Monitor).
Download or read book The Man Who Caught Crippen written by Joe Saward and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Kendall went to sea as a cabin boy at the age of 15. By the time he was 32 he was the captain of an Atlantic liner, and in 1910 shot to fame when he sent a celebrated wireless transmission from the SS Montrose, as she headed out into the Atlantic Ocean: "Have strong suspicions that Crippen, London cellar murderer and accomplice, are among saloon passengers." The message sparked off an extraordinary chase as Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard raced by train to Liverpool, boarded a fast ship to Canada, aiming to arrive before the Montrose, to arrest Dr Crippen. The world watched the drama unfold as the power of wireless communication in law enforcement was proved for the first time. Four years later Kendall was the commander of the RMS Empress of Ireland when she was hit and sunk by a Norwegian coal freighter in the St Lawrence estuary. There were 1,012 lives lost but, by a quirk of fate, Kendall lived. During his life he survived attempted murder, shipwrecks, torpedoes, icebergs, scorpion bites, cannibals, sharks, fevers, flying bombs and even a marauding leopard. Kendall's amazing life is told by Joe Saward, the author of the best-selling "Grand Prix Saboteurs." Four years after Crippen's arrest, Kendall was in command of the RMS Empress of Ireland when she was sunk by a Norwegian coal freighter. There were 1,012 lives lost that night but - by a quirk of fate - Kendall survived. These extraordinary stories are told by the author of best-selling "Grand Prix Saboteurs."
Download or read book Her Name Titanic written by Charles R. Pellegrino and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1990-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sailing, sinking and discovery of the Titanic on the ocean floor.
