The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), August 1st, 2004
Byline: Jim Reilly Staff writer
Just before 2 a.m. on May 29, 1914, The Empress of Ireland sank beneath the dark waves of the St. Lawrence River, carrying 1,012 souls with her.
She'd been steaming up the St. Lawrence toward the Atlantic, when the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship headed in the opposite direction, struck her in the side in heavy fog off Pointe au Pere, Quebec. The Storstad, smaller but heavily loaded and with a reinforced, ice-breaking bow designed to crack Scandinavian pack ice, split the passenger liner's hull above and below the waterline, leaving a fatal gash 25 feet high...
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