Fourteen Minutes: The Last Voyage of the Empress of Ireland James Croall

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Code: BH1346

Fourteen Minutes: The Last Voyage of the Empress of Ireland James Croall

On 28th May, 1914, the EMPRESS OF IRELAND, a 14,000-ton Canadian Pacific ocean liner, saled from Quebec to her doom. Only hours into her voyage she ran into thick fog on the St Lawrence River, and collided with the Norwegian collier STORSTAD. Within fourteen minutes the vast liner had sunk to her watery grave. And over a thousand people were drowned.

In this dramatic reconstruction of the events leading up to the disaster, James Croall describes the scenes of terror, panic and heroism based on personal accounts from the remaining survivors. The tragedy of the EMPRESS OF IRELAND rivals that of the TITANIC and the LUSITANIA in the sheer magnitude of victims claimed and it is only now that the baffling mystery of the collision can fully be revealed.

‘The most authoritative account yet written of the disaster, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath.’ Lloyd’s List

Format :- Hard Cover
Dust cover:- Good condition
Size :- 225mm x 150mm
Date Published :- 1978
Pages :- 240
Condition :- good Second hand some tape marks to inside cover.
Illustrations :- black and white plates

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