The Forgotten Empress

In the year 1914, the world was two years removed from the horrendous disaster that was the RMS Titanic. A disaster just as great in magnitude would follow this year, but it's often forgotten or not compared. Why is that? Stay tuned and discover the story of the RMS Empress of Ireland, the Forgotten Empress.
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Works Cited:
The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland by Logan Marshall
Forgotten Empress by David Zeni

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[fabianzimmermann]

Interestingly enough her sister ship, the Empress of Britain, was also involved in collisions, ramming two other ships and sinking them both. She rammed one ship in the St. Lawrence River in 1912 during fog, almost foreshadowing her sisters demise. She also struck an iceberg only eleven days after the Titanic did, but she survived.

[xsuperduperspoonx]

My girlfriend just asked me "Are you watching Sad Boat Show, again?" haha

[timbrown]

My wife's Grandfather (Ronald Ferguson) was senior Marconi Wireless Operator on the Empress that night....he sent out the Mayday before she went down and was then rescued by the Lady Evelyn where he then used the tugs wireless room to continue sending survivors messages to Father Point. Nearly 70 years later (when he was 87) Jacques Cousteau took him down in his submersible to visit the wreck. Cousteau's crew were touched that they had a survivor of the wreck on board and treated him with great respect.

[samc]

When we needed him the most. He returned

[thCenturyManTrad]

It's really sad that this video is longer than it took for the Empress to sink...chilling and horrifying. God rest the souls of those poor souls. It's a disgrace that more people don't know about her.

[iamfluffy]

As a Canadian, I’m glad that the empress is getting more recognition.

[phaasch]

This is by far the most detailed and informative account of the Empress' tragic fate. You make it very accessible to picture the sudden horror, from normality to death within 15 brief minutes.
The Henry Kendall/ Crippen connection is amazing - no one has ever brought this up before, at least on YouTube. And then getting torpedoed on top of that- what an extraordinary life that man led, and I'll definitely be searching out more about him. Many, many thanks.

[maximal]

First I heard of this tragedy was at my grandparents as they were parishioners of the local Salvation Army Church and noticed an article in the churches publication about the anniversary of the sinking.

[lordcantiismyname]

I needed this so much today. It's always a great day when Maritime Horrors posts a new video

[marvindebot]

That, sir, was a superbly told tale, one of your very best. I had heard of this sinking but not the details and it's sad that even when a company does all it can to build and maintain a safe ship the worst can still occur. Her captain sounds like a very interesting chap, did he ever write a book on his life?

[boomrandomWriter]

Absolutely cruel luck. Both captains' seemed to be making reasonable decisions given what they knew...up until the very last one.

Also looked up Kendall's story, is awesome. Truly a man made of sturdy stuff.

[celeste]

As a resident of quebec with a father who was in the Navy, I was raised with the history of this ship and it's disaster....
I still need to visit the Museum at Rimouski.
So happy to see it there!!! ♥♥♥

[anautilus]

This story is so similar to the Andrea Doria. Both liners were struck by Scandinavian icebreakers after miscommunications, and both Stockholm and Storstad saved many passengers.

[mbryson]

I have watched many accounts of the sinking. This is far and away one of the very best.

Thank you for sharing this.

[BHuang]

I read the title and immediately knew what ship it was! Even more tragic then the Titanic yet relatively obscure in the public!

[baileywright]

She is actually marked as a historic wreck on the area's nautical charts which is neat. Only one I can think of off the top of my head. I didn't know about her until I found a 1914 copy of 'The Tragic story of the Empress of Ireland and Other Great Sea Disasters' at a used book store in 2013

[lumpchunker]

Great video! I did a big history project on the Empress when I was in grade 8, and I've been fascinated by her ever since. My Mum drove me to Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto to see the Salvation Army monument to the 167 Salvationists lost in the sinking, and the graves of the 22 who were found. It was amazing and sobering to see these real-life monuments to history most people only read about in books.

She sank in the blink of an eye, and was forgotten just as quickly when WW1 began. The Empress, her passengers and her crew will forever be a haunting, fascinating piece of history.

[makoqc]

I'm a resident of the town that the Empress sinked at and this makes me very happy to see someone cover it! Thank you!

[joshuaryan]

Very interesting question--why is Titanic remembered and other disasters not? I recall that Stephen Cox, in "The Titanic Story, " argued that the Titanic took 2 hrs and 40 minutes to sink, which is about the length of a Shakespeare play. This required people aboard to make decisions but gave them time to think and notice what others were doing, thus providing much more human interest than the horrifying disasters of the Empress and the Lusitania, which sank in minutes.

[mikelagaffe]

im so glad to hear you speaking about this horrible tragedy.
i come from rimouski and lived my whole childhood in the small village right next to father point, Sainte Luce. the sinking happened directly in front of it's 1.8km beach, about 2km's offshore.
there are lots of plaques and pictures with maps.and informations, and there's a full museum in her honor at father point, at the foot of the lighthouse.
they added a submarine to their exhibitions
interesting fact: the external shape of the museum's building mimicks how the wreck s sitting at the bottom of the River