The number of lives lost following the sinking of the Empress of Ireland in the Saint Lawrence River is now officially put at 1,021, with 446 passengers having been rescued from the ship.

The RMS Empress of Ireland went down in the St Lawrence River following a collision with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad on May 29 1914, with the loss of 1,012 lives. The tragedy, which came two ...

As Liverpool mourned the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland on May 29, 1914, a poem written in tribute by local poet James Ernest Bygroves was distributed to a city in grief. “And deeds were ...

One thousand sink with Empress of Ireland in Gulf of St. Lawrence QUEBEC, May 29, 1914 (UP) - The big Canadian Pacific Transatlantic liner Empress of Ireland was sunk early today in collision with ...

When the team arrived at the location, two kilometres from the ... The structure was added to the Empress of Ireland a few months after it was put in service, said Saint-Pierre.

One Louth man epitomized the Luck of the Irish when he survived two major shipwrecks - The Titanic in 1912 and The Empress of Ireland in 1914. Encyclopedia Titanica shared a biography The Dundalk ...