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
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.
RMS Empress of Britain was a transatlantic ocean liner built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland in 1905–1906 for Canadian Pacific Steamship. This s
RMS Empress of Ireland
…it the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering built Empress of Ireland and her sister ship, Empress of Britain, at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland. The liners were commissioned by Canadian Pacific Steamships or CPR for the North Atlantic route between Liverpool…
RMS Empress of Britain, in Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Empress of Britain at Liverpool in 1905
Empress of Britain as a troop ship in the First World War
Empress of Britain in a 1920s postcard