Survivor of the Sinking of the Empress of Ireland : the Story of Frans Praksi
Hirvelä, Aulis (2013)
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Hirvelä, Aulis
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2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe20201216100902
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe20201216100902
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Introduction / Elisabeth Uschanov
Frans goes to America
Mining in Chisholm
The Empress of Ireland departs Quebec for Europe
Back home
Life goes on
Frans goes to America
Mining in Chisholm
The Empress of Ireland departs Quebec for Europe
Back home
Life goes on
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The steamship Empress of Ireland was built to carry immigrants and other passengers across the North Atlantic between Quebec City and Liverpool. The company proclaimed that they offered the fastest and shortest passage across the Atlantic.
The Empress of Ireland bound for Liverpool departed from Quebec City in the afternoon of May 28, 1914. There were 1,057 passengers and 420 crew members on board. In the early hours of May 29, 1914, shortly after the departure and in dense fog, the Empress of Ireland collided with the Norwegian coal carrier Storstad. Most of the passengers were asleep at the time of the collision and did not have time to save themselves, but drowned quickly.
1,015 people perished in the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history. The number of survivors was 462, a significant part of them members of the crew. On board the ship were 93 passengers heading for Finland; all of them traveling in third class. Only 21 of them survived, 72 drowned and vanished in the deep waters along with the ship.
The Empress of Ireland faded into oblivion, because it sank only a few months before the outbreak of the First World War, and people had turned their attention elsewhere.
These events were written down by Aulis Hirvelä, Frans’ grandson.
The Empress of Ireland bound for Liverpool departed from Quebec City in the afternoon of May 28, 1914. There were 1,057 passengers and 420 crew members on board. In the early hours of May 29, 1914, shortly after the departure and in dense fog, the Empress of Ireland collided with the Norwegian coal carrier Storstad. Most of the passengers were asleep at the time of the collision and did not have time to save themselves, but drowned quickly.
1,015 people perished in the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history. The number of survivors was 462, a significant part of them members of the crew. On board the ship were 93 passengers heading for Finland; all of them traveling in third class. Only 21 of them survived, 72 drowned and vanished in the deep waters along with the ship.
The Empress of Ireland faded into oblivion, because it sank only a few months before the outbreak of the First World War, and people had turned their attention elsewhere.
These events were written down by Aulis Hirvelä, Frans’ grandson.