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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 ...
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.
It was, however, too late, and around 01:55, Empress of Ireland's crew suddenly saw Storstad appear out of the fog, heading directly for them. At 01:56, the ships collided at an approximately 40° angle, with the much sturdier Storstad tearing a roughly 16-foot (4.9-metre) gash in Empress of Ireland' s starboard side between her funnels.
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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.
Netflix's new historical drama, The Empress, dropped on Sept. 29, and it's already taken the No. 2 spot on the streaming service's charts.If you're a fan of Bridgerton and The Crown, this is 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 ...