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 ...

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 ...

In 1914, the Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River in eastern Quebec after colliding with the Norwegian cargo ship SS Storstad; of the 1,477 people on board ...

In the early morning hours of May 29, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland, a Canadian Pacific Steamship Company liner on the Quebec-Liverpool route, was traveling northeast in the St. Lawrence River ...

The launching mallet for a ship dubbed Canada’s Titanic is to go under the hammer in the UK next month. The RMS Empress of Ireland went down in the St Lawrence River following a collision with the ...

The ill-fated RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St Lawrence River after it hit the Norwegian collier SS Storstad on May 29 1914 claiming 1,012 lives. The tragedy was the worst maritime disaster ...