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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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    RMS Empress of Ireland sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian collier Storstad...
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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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  • youngest and last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland on May 29, 1914. She was one of four children (out of the 138 children on board)...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    (disambiguation) RMS Empress of Ireland, an ocean liner that sank in May 1914 after a collision United Ireland, a current political movement Irish (disambiguation)...
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    eye of the press, this maiden voyage was a matter of national prestige. However, this event was overshadowed by the sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland in...
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    Pointe-au-Père Lighthouse (category Lighthouses on the National Historic Sites of Canada register)
    as part of the Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père. The RMS Empress of Ireland shipwrecking is documented in the Empress of Ireland museum and...
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    John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey (category RMS Titanic)
    official Board of Trade inquiries into the sinking of steamships, most notably RMS Titanic, RMS Lusitania, and RMS Empress of Ireland; and also Falaba...
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  • wine merchant and naturalist Henry George Kendall Ship Captain of the RMS Empress of Ireland. Roger Keyes Jiah Khan (born Nafisa Khan, a British actress...
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    SM U-62 (category World War I submarines of Germany)
    freighter Storstad, the ship that had rammed and sunk the RMS Empress of Ireland ocean liner in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern...
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    RMS Empress of Britain was a steam turbine ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 by John Brown shipyard in Scotland, owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway...
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    Laurence Irving (dramatist) (category Deaths on the RMS Empress of Ireland)
    Irving drowned in the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster on May 29th 1914 when in the early hours of the morning, The Empress of Ireland was rammed by the Storstad...
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    40.43333; -69.76667 in a depth of around 270 feet (82 m) of water. RMS Empress of Ireland, which also sank as a result of a collision Treasure hunting (marine)...
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    HMHS Britannic (redirect from RMS Britannic)
    Britannic (originally to be the RMS Britannic) (/brɪˈtænɪk/) was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and the second...
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  • Miramar, Empress of Ireland, ID#1123972. Miramar, Empress of Asia, ID#1135226. Miramar, Empress of Russia, ID#1135197. Miramar, Empress of France, ID#1136266...
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    RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin...
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    Great Blue Hole (category Caves of Belize)
    Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland...
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    Henry Herbert Lyman (category Deaths on the RMS Empress of Ireland)
    sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland in 1914. Lyman was born in Montreal in a family of industrialists from England. They were a part of the Anglo-Protestant...
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    Mabel Hackney (category Deaths on the RMS Empress of Ireland)
    RMS Empress of Ireland disaster. In the early hours of the morning on 29 May 1914, near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, the Empress of Ireland was...
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    kittens behind. Empress of Ireland left without her, which was regarded as a terrible omen. Early the next morning Empress of Ireland was struck by Storstad...
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    Cenote (category Caves of Mexico)
    sinkhole, resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater. The term originated on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where the ancient Maya...
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    building of the first three of a fleet of steamships: the RMS Empress of China, RMS Empress of India and RMS Empress of Japan which regularly sailed between...
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    region of the Dominican Republic. It was politically incorporated as the "Verón–Punta Cana township" in 2006, and it is subject to the municipality of Higüey...
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