The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland
Author : Logan Marshall
Publisher : Philadelpia? : s.n.
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN :
Author : Logan Marshall
Publisher : Philadelpia? : s.n.
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN :
Author : Logan Marshall
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Shipwreck of the Empress of Ireland was the most horrible marine disaster in Canadian maritime history. Having taken place two years after the Titanic sinking, the Empress of Ireland had more than enough lifeboats onboard, yet the passengers didn't have time to use them as the boat foundered in only 14 minutes. Besides the history of the Empress of Ireland, Logan Marshall collected the most spectacular maritime disasters of different times in one book.
Author : James Croall
Publisher : London : Sphere Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
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.
Author : Kevin F. McMurray
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 2005-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0071796878
"Dark Descent makes the reader a vicarious participant in what is a very extreme sport."—Philadelphia Inquirer On May 29, 1914, the passenger liner Empress of Ireland was struck by the freighter Storstad and sank in fifteen minutes, taking more than 1,000 victims with her. It remains one of the largest losses of life ever in a maritime accident. At more than a hundred feet deep in the frigid Gulf of St. Lawrence, diving the Empress is like trying to navigate an unfamiliar sixty-story building lying on its side at a forty-five-degree angle, in pitch blackness with only a flashlight. In Dark Descent, Kevin McMurray takes us deep into the bowels of the lost ship, first to relive her tragic death and then to join the divers who have probed the wreck's secrets. It's an adventure from which some divers don't return. "Impressively researched. . . . For those who love the lure of the deep water and the mysteries of shipwrecks, this specialized history will be a pleasure."—Publishers Weekly "Kevin has a remarkable knack of adding life and realism. A great job."—R. W. Hamilton, Chairman of the Board, Divers Alert Network
Author : David Zeni
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 9781874448808
Author : Caroline Pignat
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0143192019
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.
Author : John Willis
Publisher : Souvenir Catalogue
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780660202839
"This work is a souvenir of the exhibition [of the same name]... at Pier 21, Halifax"--Title page verso.
Author : Karen Autio
Publisher : Winlaw, BC : Sono Nis Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550391510
Saara is excited to go to Finland to finally meet her grandparents and extended family, but when the ship she is on--the Empress of Ireland--sinks, all she can think about is the safety of her mother and younger brother.
Author : Derek Grout
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781459724242
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.
Author : William Flayhart
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393041552
"Perils of the Atlantic" captures the stories of a number of vessels that experienced adventure on the high seas, from the tragic loss of the liner "Arctic" in 1854 to the swift sinking of the Italian "Andrea Doria" in 1956.