| Admin | New article published February 2005, by Marion Kelch:
[url="http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=99&z=21"]The Collision between the S/S Empress of Ireland and the S/S Storstad[/url] - This article was provided by Marion Kelch, chairperson of the Empress of Ireland Artifacts Committee. The Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River the night of May 29, 1914, after colliding with the Norwegian collier S/S Storstad. The accident took 1012 lives of which 14 were Norwegians. The Empress of Ireland is the world's second worst sinking, in peacetime, after the Titanic until 1987 when over 3000 persons lost their lives when a ferry sank in the Philippines.
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