Empress of Ireland

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The RMS Empress of Ireland was a passenger ship of the Canadian Pacific Railway built in Glasgow in 1906. From June 1906, she operated a regular North Atlantic liner service between Québec in Canada and Liverpool in England.

On May 29, 1914, she sank after a collision in the Saint Lawrence River. 1,012 people lost their lives. The sinking of the Empress of Ireland is therefore the civilian maritime disaster with the third-highest loss of life before the outbreak of the First World War (after the Titanic and the General Slocum), and remains the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history.

Despite the severity of the disaster, the Empress of Ireland was relatively quickly forgotten due to the outbreak of the First World War. In 2009, the wreck was added to the list of National Historic Sites of Canada.

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