Beneath Dark Waters The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck

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Beneath Dark Waters
by Eve Lazarus
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1551529734 | 334 pages | True EPUB | 79.4 MB

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 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 maritime disaster during peacetime in Canadian history.
Investigative journalist and author Eve Lazarus draws on a trove of historical...

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