Post mortem on an Empress

摘要

In the words of a reporter at the time, 'she rolled over like a hog in a ditch'. He was describing the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland's collision with the Norwegian collier Storstad in fog in the very early hours of 29 May 1914, a collision which created a terrible hole in the liner's starboard side and caused an unstoppable inrush of water.