CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGEIntroduction9I.The Empress of Ireland Sails to Her Doom13II.Captain Kendall Blames the Storstad29III.Captain Andersen’s Defense33IV.Miraculous Escape of the Few37V.The Stricken Survivors Return44VI.Heroes of the Empress Disaster64VII.The Surgeon’s Thrilling Story71VIII.Ship of Death Reaches Quebec74IX.Solemn Services for the Dead83X.Crippling Loss to the Salvation Army92XI.Notable Passengers Aboard110XII.List of Survivors and Roll of the Dead118XIII.The Storstad Reaches Port125XIV.Parliament Shocked by the Calamity132XV.Messages of Sympathy and Help134XVI.Placing the Blame140XVII.Empress in Fact, as in Name156XVIII.The Norwegian Collier Storstad161XIX.The St. Lawrence: A Beautiful River163XX.The Tragic Story of the Titanic Disaster175XXI.The Most Sumptuous Palace Afloat178XXII.The Titanic Strikes an Iceberg186XXIII.“Women and Children First”197XXIV.Left to Their Fate221XXV.The Call for Help Heard231XXVI.In the Drifting Life-Boats235XXVII.The Tragic Home-Coming254XXVIII.Other Great Marine Disasters284XXIX.Development of Shipbuilding292XXX.Safety and Life-Saving Devices300XXXI.Seeking Safety at Sea307
FACTS ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EMPRESS OF IRELANDNUMBER of persons aboard, 1,475.Number of persons saved, 397.Number of persons dead, 1,078.Total number of first-class passengers, 87.Total number of second-class passengers, 256.Total number of third-class passengers, 717.Total number of crew, 415.The Salvation Army Delegation numbered 150; of these 124 were lost.The Empress of Ireland was a twin-screw vessel of 14,500 tons.The vessel was built in Glasgow in 1906 by the Fairfield Company, Ltd., and was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway.The Storstad is a single-screw vessel, registering 6,028 tons.The vessel was built by the Armstrong, Whitworth Company at Newcastle in 1911, and is owned by the Dampsk Aktieselk Maritime of Christiania, Norway.
FACTS ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND
NUMBER of persons aboard, 1,475.
Number of persons saved, 397.
Number of persons dead, 1,078.
Total number of first-class passengers, 87.
Total number of second-class passengers, 256.
Total number of third-class passengers, 717.
Total number of crew, 415.
The Salvation Army Delegation numbered 150; of these 124 were lost.
The Empress of Ireland was a twin-screw vessel of 14,500 tons.
The vessel was built in Glasgow in 1906 by the Fairfield Company, Ltd., and was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Storstad is a single-screw vessel, registering 6,028 tons.
The vessel was built by the Armstrong, Whitworth Company at Newcastle in 1911, and is owned by the Dampsk Aktieselk Maritime of Christiania, Norway.
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