The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland, and Other Great Sea Disasters

THE CARPATHIA REACHES NEW YORK -- AN INTENSE AND DRAMATIC MOMENT -- HYSTERICAL REUNIONS AND CRUSHING DISAPPOINTMENTS AT THE DOCK -- CARING FOR THE SUFFERERS -- FINAL REALIZATION...

ONCE on the deck, many hesitated to enter the swinging life-boats. The glassy sea, the starlit sky, the absence, in the first few moments, of intense excitement, gave them the f...

A GRIM reminder of the fact that even the most perfect of modern Atlantic liners is subject to the dangers of the sea was given when the survivors of the passengers and crew who...

SORROW AND SUFFERING -- THE SURVIVORS SEE THE TITANIC GO DOWN WITH THEIR LOVED ONES ON BOARD -- A NIGHT OF AGONIZING SUSPENSE -- WOMEN HELP TO ROW -- HELP ARRIVES -- PICKING UP...

JOY OF FAREWELL SERVICE TURNED TO GRIEF -- SCENES AT HEADQUARTERS AS SAD NEWS CAME -- REUNIONS THAT FAILED -- HEART-BREAKING RETURN OF THE FEW -- REVERENT CROWDS WAITING -- ENSI...

INQUIRY CONDUCTED BY CORONER PINAUT -- NO REPLY TO "STAND FAST" CRY -- TESTIMONY OF JAMES RANKIN -- CHIEF ENGINEER EXPLAINS -- WIRELESS OPERATOR'S STORY -- GOVERNMENT INQUIRY --...

ONE MORE TRAGIC LESSON -- RESULTS OF TITANIC DISASTER -- LONDON CONFERENCE ON SAFETY AT SEA -- LIFE-BELT DRILL -- GIANT RAFTS -- LIFE-SAVING SUIT -- STORAGE BATTERIES FOR LIGHTS...

ANOTHER TOLL OF THE SEA -- THE EMPRESS SAILS FROM QUEBEC -- THE HOLIDAY HUMOR OF THE PASSENGERS -- CAPTAIN KENDALL WARNED OF FOGS -- THE STORSTAD SIGHTED -- FOG SUDDENLY SETTLES...

The improvement of the St. Lawrence, indeed, dates as far back as 1825. In that year the opening of the Lachine Canal gave connection with the Great Lakes and established a comm...

TARDY ATTENTION TO WARNING RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENT -- THE DANGER NOT REALIZED AT FIRST -- AN INTERRUPTED CARD GAME -- PASSENGERS JOKE AMONG THEMSELVES -- THE REAL TRUTH DAWNS -...

THE GHASTLY CARGO -- ESCORTED BY BRITISH CRUISER ESSEX -- SMALL WHITE COFFINS -- PATHETIC SEARCH FOR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS -- WRETCHED CONDITION OF BODIES -- LOST HIS ENTIRE FAM...

THE origin of travel on water dates back to a very early period in human history, men beginning with the log, the inflated skin, the dug-out canoe, and upwards through various m...

THE general feeling aboard the ship after the boats had left her sides was that she would not survive her wound, but the passengers who remained aboard displayed the utmost hero...

IN every church in Canada, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish alike, reference was made on Sunday, May 31st, to the disaster that had at one blow bereaved hundreds of Canadian hom...

The keel of the ill-fated ship was laid in the summer of 1909 at the Harland & Wolff yards, Belfast. Lord Pirrie, considered one of the best authorities on shipbuilding in the w...

THE tragic loss of life was emphasized by the fact that many of the passengers were known around the world. Among these were Sir Henry Seton-Karr, English lawyer, traveler and h...

DR. GRANT THE CHIEF HERO -- SIR SETON-KARR GAVE UP LIFE FOR STRANGER -- LAURENCE IRVING DIED TRYING TO SAVE HIS WIFE -- H. R. O'HARA DIED FOR FAMILY -- CAPTAIN KENDALL SAVED BEL...

BADLY DAMAGED, THE COLLIER DOCKS AT MONTREAL -- SEIZED ON WARRANT -- OFFICERS IN CONFERENCE -- THEIR VERSION OF THE ACCIDENT -- HELPED RESCUE EMPRESS PASSENGERS -- STATEMENT OF...

THE danger of collision with icebergs has always been one of the most deadly that confront the mariner. Indeed, so well recognized is this peril of the Newfoundland Banks, where...

HEROIC DEMEANOR OF CAPTAIN KENDALL -- RESPONSE TO WIRELESS CALLS FOR HELP -- EUREKA AND LADY EVELYN ON SCENE OF DISASTER -- THE SEARCH FOR THE QUICK AND THE DEAD -- TERRIBLE PLI...

THE fact that there were any survivors of the Titanic left to tell the story of the terrible catastrophe is only another of the hundreds of instances on record of the value of w...

Barlow, A. E., Montreal. Barlow, Mrs., Montreal. Bennett, Mrs. Hart, Nassau, N. P. Bloomfield, Mrs. W. R. Bloomfield, Lieutenant-Colonel W. R., Auckland, N. Z. Brandon, A. G., M...

NEARNESS OF THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND CATASTROPHE -- MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL -- GRIEF IN ENGLAND -- LORD MAYOR OF LONDON STARTS FUND -- SYMPATHY EXTENDED BY KING AND QUEE...

THE Empress of Ireland and her sister-ship, the Empress of Britain, were in many respects fittingly called "the Empresses of the Atlantic." They stood as a synonym for all that...

A FOG bank settled down and we met. The Empress was struck amidship on her starboard side, listed and filled rapidly. When we got clear I ordered all boats lowered, and we succe...

SLIGHT FOG BANK -- NEARNESS OF STORSTAD -- SIGNAL GIVEN AND ANSWERED -- SHOUTED TO COLLIER -- SHIP BEGAN TO FILL -- LIFE-BOATS OUT -- DISTRESS SIGNALS -- SHIP FOUNDERED QUICKLY...

Seaward and landward, J. G. Phillips, the Titanic's wireless man, had hurled the appeal for help. By fits and starts--for the wireless was working unevenly and blurringly--Phill...

I WAS in my cabin, and heard nothing until the boat listed so badly that I tumbled out of my berth and rolled under it. I concluded that something had gone wrong, and tried to t...

LIKE a bolt out of a clear sky came the wireless message on Monday, April 15, 1912, that on Sunday night the great Titanic, on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, had struck...

GOVERNMENTS may seem a little aloof from their people in times of prosperity; but not so in times of trouble. The Canadian Parliament met on May 29th under the shadow of a great...

THE Storstad, a twin-screw steamer, was built in 1910 at Newcastle, England, by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., for A. F. Klaverness & Co. Her registered home port is Christiania, N...