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  Swallowed in 14 Minutes : ET Research (2001) by Gavin Murphy - 20 June 2001
The Empress of Ireland, pride of the Canadian Pacific white empress fleet, was designed by Francis Elgar and built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.
The Empress of Ireland was a monument to Edwardian splendour.
The Empress disaster does not have the drama of the Titanic's iceberg collision, nor is it the subject of countless films and books-or excessive hype.
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /item/1505   (1706 words)

  
 Empress of Ireland<
Fate, however, had disaster in store for the Empress of Ireland and in a veiling fog the collier, Storstad, was to pierce her hull and send the Empress to the bottom of the St. Lawrence River.
The Empress of Ireland took all but 462 of the 1477 souls on board with her.
Today, the Empress of Ireland still lies in her resting place occasionally visited by those divers who brave the cold dark depths, the racing currents, and the myriad of possible entrapments that exist inside her forbidding hull.
www.sea-viewdiving.com /featured.htm   (227 words)

  
 PBS Online - Lost Liners - Empress of Ireland
On the bridge of the Empress of Ireland, Captain Henry Kendall guessed that the approaching ship was roughly eight miles away, giving him ample time to cross her bow before he set his course for more open water.
The Empress of Ireland was not a particularly famous or fashionable ship, and she sank so soon before the outbreak of the war that attention soon shifted to graver matters.
But the lessons from the Empress of Ireland's demise would have to be relearned barely 40 years later during the sinking of the Andrea Doria, when once again fog proved more than a match for the latest in seagoing technology.
www.pbs.org /lostliners/empress.html   (1695 words)

  
 MODEL BOAT ASUKA II
Henry George Kendall had just been promoted to captain of the Empress of Ireland at the beginning of the month and it was his first trip down the Saint Lawrence River in command of the vessel.
The cause of the tragedy was disputed by the surviving crew of the Empress of Ireland and the crew of Storstad.
Either the Empress strayed across the Storstad's bows, or the Storstad crossed the Empress's path from port to starboard and executed a 90 degree turn to pierce her starboard side.
www.gianhien.net /retail/all/empress-ireland.htm   (1141 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: RMS Empress of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Launched on January 26, 1906, the Empress of Ireland measured 570 feet (174 m) in length with a beam of 66 feet (20.1 m) and displacement of 14,191 tons.
The Empress of Ireland departed Quebec City at 16:30 (local time) on May 29, 1914 with 1,477 passengers and crew for Liverpool.
Early the next morning on May 30, 1914, the ship was proceeding down the channel in the Saint Lawrence River near Pointe-au-Père, Quebec (north of the town of Rimouski) in a heavy fog bank.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/RMS-Empress-of-Ireland   (960 words)

  
 TGOL - Empress of Ireland
But with this in mind, the Empress of Ireland was truly a fine liner, with airy public areas and even a five-piece string orchestra on board to serenade the first class passengers during dinner time.
Her older sister Empress of Britain broke the speed record for the run between Father Point and Liverpool with a crossing of 5 days, 8 hours and 18 minutes in 1907, but the Empress of Ireland was never to possess any such honours.
One interruption in the Empress of Ireland’s otherwise steady service came in July of 1913, when she participated in the Mersey Royal Review of merchant and naval vessels by King George V and Queen Mary.
www.greatoceanliners.net /empressofireland.html   (1574 words)

  
 Empress of Ireland - LostLiners.com
Empress of Ireland and her sister Empress of Britain were built on a fixed-price contract.
As Canadian Pacific's new flagship, Empress of Ireland was to be adorned with over 46,700 square feet of mahogany and wherever it was feasible, solid woods were used.
Empress of Ireland was comprised of eight decks.
www.lostliners.com /Liners/Canadian_Pacific/Empress_Ireland/lady.html   (1220 words)

  
 CANOE -- CNEWS - The fight to save our sunken heritage
The ship\'s name was Canadian Pacific\'s Empress of Ireland, and on May 29, 1914, she became a hulking steel coffin for hundreds of Canadian and European passengers, plunging to a depth of 390 metres in only minutes.
While the Empress continues to rust on the sea floor, hundreds of artifacts have been brought back to dry land, and are now the subject of an international struggle, one involving cash, collectors, and a determined woman from Czar, Alta. -- a town roughly 1,200 km from the nearest ocean.
Restoring the Empress to her rightful place in history is part of what Kelch and her volunteer group hopes to accomplish, but keeping that history in Canada is the main goal.
cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/Canadiana/2003/05/04/79742.html   (1397 words)

  
 Deep Explorers
Kevin had already been working on his latest book Dark Descent, which is about diving the Empress of Ireland, when he invited me to join his expedition to dive the I’ll fated liner and possibly shot video of the return of one of the first divers to have dived the wreck in the late sixties.
Yet the Empress of Ireland, unlike the illustrious Titanic, slipped into obscurity as surely as it slipped beneath the icy waters of the St. Lawrence.
On that fateful evening in May of 1914 the 14,500-ton Ocean Liner Empress of Ireland was on a routine crossing of the Atlantic, a crossing she had made 95 times before.
www.deepexplorers.com /expeditions/empress.html   (1329 words)

  
 RMS Empress of Ireland
The RMS Empress of Ireland was a steamship owned by Canadian Pacific that sailed from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada to Liverpool, United Kingdom.
on May 29, 1914, while sailing to Liverpool in the Saint Lawrence River near Pointe-au-Pere, the Empress of Ireland collided with the Norwegian coal freighter Storstad.
Henry George Kendall had just been promoted to captain of the Empress of Ireland at the beginning of the month and it was his first trip down the Saint Lawrence River.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/rm/rms_empress_of_ireland.html   (158 words)

  
 Empress of Ireland
The Empress of Ireland plunged to the bottom of the St-Lawrence seaway on May 29, 1914, taking with her more than one thousand lives.
Built in Glasgow (Scotland) in 1904 for the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Empress of Ireland was crossing the Atlantic Ocean between the city of Liverpool and Quebec City.
The Empress of Ireland is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, beautiful, impressive and prestigious wrecks in the world.
www.tekdiv.com /empress_of_ireland.htm   (559 words)

  
 Empress of Ireland sinks in the St. Lawrence - Empress of Ireland sinks in the St. Lawrence - CBC Archives
Empress of Ireland sinks in the St. Lawrence - Empress of Ireland sinks in the St. Lawrence - CBC Archives
In the early morning hours of May 29, 1914, the Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland was cruising the St. Lawrence, headed for Liverpool.
• Though more passengers died on the Empress of Ireland than on the Titanic — 840 to 832 — the Empress of Ireland is largely forgotten while the Titanic has been immortalized in countless ways.
archives.cbc.ca /400d.asp?id=1-70-2255-13413&ref=rss   (819 words)

  
 Alp-Maritimes Sports - Introduction
Hence, we do not have course or trip schedules as per say, each client has his or her own program, true we may combine people in a particular situation as it is often advantageous for all but each person retains their own program.
As it stands now I will be keeping a crew in the Empress area all summer long, so you should pick your dates and there is a good chance we can accommodate your group on their first or second choice of dates.
There are only three important things to an Empress trip for a group like yours; preparation, preparation and preparation, you can’t leave anything to the last minute and you need back-up plans.
www.technicaldivingops.com /pages/intro-empress.html   (1960 words)

  
 TGOL - Empress of England/Ocean Monarch
A closer view of the Empress of England’s bow, showing the damage she sustained from the collision in the St. Lawrence in November of 1965.
The company was now hoping that the Empress of England would perform as well as her sister, Empress of Britain, which by now had been in service for almost exactly a year.
Empress of England sporting the new Canadian Pacific livery, which was adopted in 1968.
www.greatoceanliners.net /empressofengland.html   (1680 words)

  
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The 1st class cabins, place of impact, the distance and diameter of the stacks, and part of the main exposition room of the Empress of Ireland are to scale.
On November 11th, 1905, the Empress of Britain was launched, followed on the 27th of January 1906 by the Empress of Ireland.
He was promoted and put in command of the Empress of Ireland at the beginning of the month and this was to be his first time down the St. Lawrence River in command.
www.shmp.qc.ca /en/empress   (2698 words)

  
 EMPRESS OF IRELAND
It was the first trip for the Empress of Ireland.
The Empress of Ireland took all but 462 of the 1477 souls on board with it.
Today, the Empress of Ireland still lies in its resting place occasionally visited by those divers who brave the cold dark depths.
www.vellorewoods.ps.yrdsb.edu.on.ca /grassroots/44   (74 words)

  
 Walk Donegal - empress of ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 Centre de plongée Nepteau - Empress of Ireland
On the morning of May 28, 1914, the Empress of Ireland leaves the port of Quebec with 1477 passengers aboard.
The shipwreck of the Empress was quickly forgotten because of the start of World War 1, and because the death of immigrants did not have the same repercussions as the death of the richer passengers if the Titanic.
Since April 24, 1998, the wreck of the Empress of Ireland is classified as part of our heritage, this putting an end to the uncontrolled exploitation of the wreck.
www.nepteau.com /_empress.html   (413 words)

  
 Empress of Ireland Photo Gallery by Kim at pbase.com
The Empress of Ireland took all but 462 of the 1477 souls on board with her, sinking in 14 minutes.
Today, the Empress of Ireland still lies in her resting place occassionally visited by those divers who brave the cold dark depths, the racing currents, and the myriad of posssible entrapments that exist inside her forbidding hull.
Michelle: My daughter is doing a project on the empress of ireland and we would be very interested in seeing a copy of the newspaper article.
www.pbase.com /kiml/eoi   (270 words)

  
 The Empress of Ireland disaster
This was the sinking of the Empress of Ireland in May 1914.
The Empress of Ireland and her sister, the Empress of Britain, were important ships.
The photograph above, showing emigrants on the Empress of Ireland, is from a postcard dated July 1911from the Maritime Archives collection, reference PR 478.
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /maritime/collections/liners/empress   (245 words)

  
 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - Ill fated Empress of Ireland, collides with Norwegian Collier Storstad on the 29th. of May, ...
The Empress of Ireland came from the same stable as the Empress of Britain.
Survivors cling to the upturned hull of the Empress of Ireland
The Empress was about 2/3 the size of Titanic, and was not without her charm, the 1st.
ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/IllfatedEmpressofIrelandc.html   (1456 words)

  
 Salvation Army Collectables - The Empress Of Ireland
They boarded the liner "Empress of Ireland" at Quebec at 3.30 pm on Thursday, May 28th, 1914, for the eight-day journey across the Atlantic.
The "Empress of Ireland" was launched at Liverpool on January 271h, 1906; she displaced 14,191 tons, and had accommodation for 1,700 passengers and a crew of 500.
It was eventually found that of the 1,474 who sailed on the "Empress of Ireland", 1,012 were drowned - 840 passengers and 172 crew.
www.sacollectables.com /empress.html   (1621 words)

  
 Shipwrecks - Time Capsules of Human Civilization : Empress of Ireland
There was a piece of metal railing that was covering the N in Ireland but they were able to move it away for their photo shots.
Slowly the Empress made itself down river and proceeded to pick-up and drop off the harbor pilot at Father's Point (Pointe au Pere) where the last of the mail was gathered for its trip to England.
In 1914, the new captain of the Empress of Ireland was Captain Henry Kendall.
shipwreck.blogs.com /shipwrecks_historical_tim/empress_of_ireland/index.html   (9122 words)

  
 The Collision between the S/S Empress of Ireland and the S/S Storstad
The Empress of Ireland is the world's second worst sinking, in peacetime, after the Titanic until 1987 when over 3000 persons lost their lives when a ferry sank in the Philippines.
The Empress was 549 feet long, 66 feet wide, and had a gross tonnage of 14,191 tons, with twin propellers, and an average speed of 20 knots.
The Empress of Ireland was fitted with 16 steel lifeboats to hold 764 persons; 20 Englehardt and 6 Berthon Types to hold another 1201 for a total of 1965 persons, far exceeding its total capacity of 1536 passengers.
www.norwayheritage.com /articles/templates/great-disasters.asp?articleid=99&zoneid=1   (2439 words)

  
 The Empress of Ireland - a titanic tale of forgotten tragedy
And yet the story of the Canadian Pacific's 'Empress of Ireland' seems to be buried as deeply in the mud as her rapidly decaying hull.
Some might claim the passenger loss on the 'Empress' to be somewhat of a finicky statistic in the grand scheme of things, especially when compared to the Titanic's total loss of 1503 lives including crew members, two years earlier.
But while the days of the 'Empress of Ireland' are undeniably succumbing to time, David Zeni is at least hoping that history will be kinder than the elements of the St. Lawrence.
www.exn.ca /titanic/template.cfm?ID=19980216-04   (2362 words)

  
 The Brass Crest - Canadian Staff Band
Empress was launched on January 27, 1906, and was employed on the Liverpool-Quebec run.
Empress of Ireland departed from Quebec on Thursday, May 28, 1914, on her ninety-sixth voyage, with 1,477 passengers and crew on board.
Storstad struck Empress between the funnels, and her reinforced bow penetrated fifteen to twenty feet into Empress' side.
www.brasscrest.com /band/cacsb02.html   (714 words)

  
 Titanic Norden - Allt om Titanic
Förutom Titanic kan du även läsa om skepp som Lusitania, Olympic, Britannic, Estonia, Queen Mary 1 och 2, Empress of Ireland, Jan Hevelius, Mauretania, Andrea Doria, Le Joola och regalskeppet Vasa.
Empress of Ireland är en sjökatastrof som har blivit bortglömd då den inträffade under första världskriget.
Empress of Ireland tog med sig över 1000 personer i djupet.
www.titanicnorden.com   (966 words)

  
 Shipwrecks - Time Capsules of Human Civilization : Empress of Ireland - Lifeboats Could Not Help!
Because the Empress of Ireland sank so quickly in fourteen minutes, many of the lifesaving procedures could not be accomplished.
Although the Empress carried more than enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew, the time that it took the Empress to sink would make the lifeboats useless-as no one could lower and man them in such a brief time period.
Although relatively shallow in depth, the Empress is very cold with water ranges of 28-37 degrees Fahrenheit throughout the summer, the currents are extremely swift and it is very, very dark on the ship-as very little surface ambient light can make it down to the wrecksite.
shipwreck.blogs.com /shipwrecks_historical_tim/2005/06/empress_of_irel_1.html   (514 words)

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