The Empress of Ireland | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

"On the 29th of May, 1914, two ocean liners collided in heavy fog in the St Lawrence estuary on the east coast of Canada..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Background
03:18 - The Sinking of the Empress of Ireland
08:28 - The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
► "The Plan's Working" by Cooper Cannell

SOURCES:
► "Disaster at Sea: Shipwrecks, Storms, and Collisions on the Atlantic" by William H Flayhart, published by WW Norton & Company, 2005. Link: https://wwnorton.co.uk/books/97803933...
► "The Collision between the S/S Empress of Ireland and the S/S Storstad" by Marion Kelch, published by Norway Heritage, February 2005. Link: http://www.norwayheritage.com/article...
► "Report and evidence of the Commission of Inquiry into the loss of the British steamship Empress of Ireland..." by John C Bigham, published by J de L Tache, 1914. Available via:
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collectio...

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