James Whitney
RMS Empress of Ireland
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RMS Empress of Ireland was a British-built ocean liner that sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian collier Storstad in the earl
1914 in Canada
…turned back from Canada under authority of exclusion laws prohibiting Asian immigrants. Most of the passengers returned to India. May 29 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost. June 19 – The Hillcrest mine disaster in Alberta kills 189 of 235, the worst mining disaster in Canadian…
Announcements of the liner's maiden voyage touted the passenger capacity and the speed of Empress of Ireland and her near-identical sister ship, Empress of Britain, achieving passage "between Canada and the Mother Country" in less than four days.
Formal portrait of Captain Henry Kendall, the last captain of Empress of Ireland.
Within two days, newspapers related Captain Kendall's testimony of his ordering whistle warning blasts and evasive maneuvers as a fog bank closed between the ships.
Damage sustained by Storstad after its collision with Empress of Ireland.