Before the Lusitania: The Tragedy of RMS Empress of Ireland

May 29 1914, one year before the Sinking of the Lusitania a disaster of equal tragedy occured. RMS Empress of Ireland, a passenger liner on route to Liverpool England with 1,477 Passengers and crew, collided with the norwegian collier Storstad in a thick fog bank. Fourteen minutes later the mortally wounded Empress of Ireland plunged into the abyss taking 1,012, including 314 of the 318 children onboard, to their graves. Sadly the tragedy of the Empress of Ireland would soon be overshadowed by the outbreak of World War I. Trivia: One of the Empress’s survivors, a stoker in the boiler room, claimed to have survived the sinking of the Titanic, and would go on to surivie the sinking of the Lusitania a year later. Song: Sleeping Sun Artist: Nightwish Subject: RMS Empress of Ireland