SS Empress of Ireland: Canada's Forgotten Titanic

In 1914, the SS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River after colliding with the Norwegian collier Storstad. Of the 1,477 people on board, 1,012 died, ⚓ Though less known, it remains one of Canada's worst peacetime maritime disasters. 🇨🇦 #Canada #EmpressOfIreland #MaritimeHistory #Shipwreck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Ireland

The weathered remnants of a maritime era fading into the sea.

Esperance, Western Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

#Photo #Photography #2PeepsAndACamera #Australia #WesternAustralia #Jetty #BlackAndWhite #EsperanceJetty #MaritimeHistory #CoastalDecay #Monochrome

Looking forward to presenting my paper “Bound Together at Sea: Convict Sociability and Life Aboard HMS Calcutta, 1803” at the GIS Sociabilités Workshop at The National Archives, UK, this week.

What forms of sociability did convicts experience during the voyage?

The workshop is organised by Marion Amblard (Laboratoire ILCEA4 & Pléiade, UGA), Jessica Nelson (The National Archives, UK) and Sabrina Juillet Garzon (Pléiade & ILCEA4, USPN).

#earlymodern #maritimehistory #history #histodons #forcedmigration

Auf beiden Seiten der Schlacht von #Trafalgar: Präparierte Mary Buick wirklich den Leichnam von #Nelson ? Und steckt hinter Judith Comadu mehr als eine erfundene Überlebensgeschichte? Teil II der #Womensail Blogserie :

https://womensail.hypotheses.org/2568

#MaritimeHistory #FrauenGeschichte #NapoleonischeKriege