Historical Events tagged with "gulf of saint lawrence"
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Accidents & Tragedies
RMS Empress of Ireland Sinks in St. Lawrence
May 29th, 1914 110 years ago
On a foggy night in May, the RMS Empress of Ireland collided with the Norwegian collier S.S. Storstad in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The collision caused the liner to sink rapidly, claiming the lives of 1,012 individuals out of 1,477 aboard. The Empress was on a voyage from Quebec to Liverpool, carrying both passengers and cargo, and the incident remains one of Canada's deadliest maritime disasters.
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