In the Wake of the Empress of Ireland: Rescue, Salvage and Investigations in the Summer of 1914 - Couverture souple

Saint-Pierre, David

 
9781803998213: In the Wake of the Empress of Ireland: Rescue, Salvage and Investigations in the Summer of 1914
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ISBN 10 : 1803998210 ISBN 13 : 9781803998213
Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

‘The masterful, compelling story of salvaging RMS Empress of Ireland, as told by one of the liner’s foremost historians.’ – J. Kent Layton, co-author of On a Sea of Glass and Recreating Titanic and Her Sisters

It started with two photographs.

These old prints, up for online auction, showed Royal Navy sailors carrying a buoy on a wharf on a Canadian river, with the Pointe-au-Père lighthouse in the background. David Saint-Pierre knew that this had only happened once – when the crew of HMS Essex helped salvage RMS Empress of Ireland. Her sinking at the mouth of the St Lawrence river remains the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history, with a death toll of over 1,000 people. More passengers died on the Empress of Ireland than on Titanic two years prior.

But these images were just the beginning. When Saint-Pierre made contact with the seller, he discovered that they were part of an album of over 500 pictures that told a story that history had largely forgotten: the diving and salvage on the wreck in the summer of 1914, by an international team that featured North American divers working alongside Royal Navy sailors. In the Wake of the Empress of Ireland is that story and more, exploring the aftermath of the Empress disaster.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Saint-Pierre is a historian based in Montreal, Canada, who has been researching the history of the ill-fated steamship RMS Empress of Ireland since the mid-1990s. He has collaborated on documentaries and TV shows and with other authors, and has published two books on this subject.

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Éditeur
The History Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1803998210
ISBN 13 
9781803998213
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
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