The Norwegian collier SS Storstad ran into her in the St. Lawrence River's dense fog. More than a thousand people perished as the ship sank in a matter of minutes. As a result of the more well-known sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania, the "Forgotten Empress" has been mostly forgotten. <
What is the Sahand frigate GPS point.?
Were there American prisoners aboard and are there names? Do we have name of the Captain? Did it play any part earlier in the Revolution
Where are the largest concentration of shipwrecks located?
Any word on the Marquette and Bessemer?, anyone
Need 10 more Shipwrecks of the TI books for the Tibbetts Point Lighthouse Visitors Center. Please call me at 654 2834.Dona Cullen?
Crew list of empire knight which sunk feb 1944?
What is the oldest shipwreck in the great lakes?
Is it known what hour the empress of ireland sank?
The National Museum of the Great Lakes is excited to announce the release of a new book titled Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario: A Journey of Discovery. This book contains stories of long lost shipwrecks and the journeys of the underwater explorers who found them, written by Jim Kennard with paintings by Roland Stevens and underwater imagery by Roger Pawlowski.
The recent discovery of the wreck of the British warship Ontario, “the Holy Grail” of Great Lakes shipwrecks, solves several mysteries that have puzzled historians since the ship sank more than two centuries ago. Now, for the first time, the whole tragic story of the Ontario can finally be told.