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    RMS Empress of Ireland was a British-built ocean liner that sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog...
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    exception of the war years. Empress of Britain was the sister ship of RMS Empress of Ireland, which was lost in 1914. Fairfield's built Empress of Britain...
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  • arrested Crippen. In May 1914 Kendall was appointed captain of the RMS Empress of Ireland. Almost a month later the ship sank in Canada's Saint Lawrence...
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    CP Ships (category Ships of CP Ships)
    to Canada. In 1914 the sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress of Ireland just before World War I became largest maritime disaster in Canadian...
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    SS Storstad (category Shipwrecks of Ireland)
    career. In May 1914 she accidentally rammed and sank the ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland, killing over 1,000 people. Storstad was laid down at Armstrong...
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  • Frank Tower (category RMS Lusitania)
    subject of an urban legend that said that he was a stoker (or fireman, in some versions) who survived the sinking of RMS Titanic, RMS Empress of Ireland, and...
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    Pointe-au-Père. On May 29, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River near this village, with a loss of 1,012 lives. Pointe-au-Père tide...
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    Laurence Irving (dramatist) (category Deaths on the RMS Empress of Ireland)
    along with his wife, Mabel, in the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster. Born in London, Laurence Irving was a son of the great Victorian actor-manager, Sir...
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    capsizing in 1915 after being fitted with extra lifeboats MS Estonia RMS Empress of Ireland Carlisle would leave the project in 1910, before the ships were...
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  • Canadian Pacific Steamships RMS Empress of Ireland, an English ocean liner, sank in 1914 in the Saint Lawrence River, Canada USS Empress (SP-569), a United States...
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