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Emprise of Ireland at Liverpool, England
Illustrated London News
September 5-8, 2006
Mike Chrisopulos, Jacques
Girouard, Greg Ondus,
Jack Papes, KB Spork, Wayne Rush, and Pat Wolfe travel to Eastern Quebec to
explore the wreck site of the worst maritime disaster in Canadian History,
Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Ocean
Liner, R.M.S. Empress of Ireland, lying 140 ft below the dark, cold, turbulent
depths of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Sunk just past 2 AM, May 29, 1914.
Fourteen minutes after being struck by the steam collier , Storstad in
heavy fog. 1,012 of her 1,477 passengers and crew perished.
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