Dec 14, 2006 - Sale 2098

Sale 2098 - Lot 403

Price Realized: $ 135
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
(CANADIAN PACIFIC LINE.) "Empress of Ireland." Report and Evidence of the Commission of Inquiry into the Loss of the British Steamship "Empress of Ireland." 8vo, contemporary 1/2 morocco, some wear at extremities. 5 George V - Sessional Paper No. 21b. Ottawa, 1914 [i.e. 1915]

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Twin-screw ship which entered service in 1906. In 1914 she collided with the "Storstad" on the St. Lawrence River and sank within 15 minutes, with over 1000 lives lost. At 615 pages, this Canadian inquiry into the tragedy is more exhaustive than that commissioned by the British government.