Sinking of the Empress of Ireland
Passengers standing on the side of the Empress of Ireland just before she sank in the early hours of 29th May 1914 after collision with the Norwegian collier Storstad in the Saint Lawrence River. The ship was lying almost flat on the water on the starboard side. A passenger finally pulled me through [a porthole]. About one hundred passengers had gathered on the side of the ship, but the moment after I joined them the vessel plunged to the bottom - description by Dr Grant, the ship's surgeon
Picture No
10823537
Media ID
46116080
Size
5400px x 3377px
(2.1MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Drawing by Fortunino Matania, in The Sphere, supplement to 6th June 1914
Date
May 1914
