Friday 29 May 2015

Date With History: 1914


May 29th, 2.00 am: The Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress of Ireland collided with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad in heavy fog on the St. Lawrence River near Quebec, and sank in just 14 minutes.
Of the 1,477 passengers and crew on board, only 465 survived.

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