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Empress of Ireland was the second of a pair of ocean liners ordered by Canadian Pacific Steamships during their early years in operation on the North Atlantic.In 1903, Canadian Pacific officially entered the market for trans-Atlantic passenger travel between the United Kingdom and Canada.
A few minutes later, the green side light of Empress of Ireland was seen apparently from three to five nautical miles (six to nine kilometres) away. The green light remained for an interval, and then Empress of Ireland was seen to make a change in her course. Her masthead lights came into a (vertical) line, and she showed both the green and the ...
Colourized photo of Empress of Ireland. At the end of the tour they were returning home when Laurence and Mabel Irving drowned in the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster. In the early hours of the morning on 29 May 1914, near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, the Empress of Ireland was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian collier, on her ...
Henry George Kendall (30 January 1874 – 28 November 1965) was a British sea captain who survived several shipwrecks, including the collision and sinking of the ocean liner Empress of Ireland in 1914 and an attack by a Kaiserliche Marine submarine during the First World War.
Henry Herbert Lyman (21 December 1854 – 29 May 1914) was a Canadian businessman and amateur entomologist with an interest mainly in the butterflies. A member of a prominent family of industrialists who owned Canada's largest pharmaceutical company in its time, he and his wife were killed in the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland in 1914.
On May 28, 1914, Grace's father was taking her and her mother along with other Salvation Army members (like the Evans family, Staff Captain Meyers, Mr. and Mrs. Maidment, the Leader of the Salvation Army Commissioner David Rees and his family, and others) on the Empress of Ireland that would take them from Quebec City to Liverpool, England for the third International Congress, following which ...
RMS Empress of Ireland. In 1914, the Empress of Ireland collided with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad in the Saint Lawrence River. The Empress sank in just 14 minutes and 1,012 perished. Its death toll makes it the deadliest maritime disaster in Canadian history. [13] [14] Empress of Ireland was heading down the channel near Pointe-au-Père ...
Seton-Karr died in the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland on the Saint Lawrence River, the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history; he was returning to England from a hunting trip in British Columbia. [10] He was interred at the Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery.