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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...
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They did rename it because it was Titanic's Sister ship but i guess i could be wrong :\
That and how they collided saved the Storstad, but doomed the Empress. A head on hit ( like the Storstad) is less likely to sink a ship than a broadside hit ( like the Empress)
Not all of them. RMS Olympic for example had a long and distinguished career serving as a liner and as a Troop Ship in both World Wars.
oh i did know that lol :) I guess i was mostly thinking about titanic and Britannic and most of the ones that sank lol :)
A Frank Pearson,ingenier Nordamericà que amb la seva esposa va morir en el Lusitania,ell va construir la primera presa a España,a Barcelona te una Avinguda.
FERRAN (malalt de Bach)
des de Barcelona (Catalunya)