Ok,everybody knows about the Titanic and her story,but did you know that two years later there was another ship that sank taking even more people to a watery grave than the Titanic did?And she was not even in the ocean!She was in Canada!Her name was The Empress of Ireland and she was struck in the side while coming out of a fog on the St.Lawrence river by a coal ship called the Storstad.She sank in 14 minutes taking 1,012 people with her.That was 8 more people than had died on the Titanic!But the owners had never claimed her to be unsinkable,nor was she as flamboyant as the Titanic and the fact that WWI was about to begin caused her story to sink as fast as she did.

I thought some of you might find this interesting,I know I did when I read about it.

 

The things that make you wanna go Hummmm

Nice trivia that I have never before heard of

 

How about the Edmund Fitzgerald ?

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That's verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry interesting............

 

The Edmund Fitzgerald at the time she was christened,June 8,1958,was the largest freighter on the great lakes.She was 729 ft long,75ft wide,39ft deep and weighed 13,632 tons.Her nickname was "Queen of the Great Lakes".She was named after the chairman of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance,whose grandfather and 5 great uncles had been captains on various ships.Mrs Edmund Fitzgerald was the person who christened her.At the time she was one of the most expensive freighters ever built,with a cost of $8.4 mil1ion dollars.On Nov 9 1975 she met her doom,She had left Superior Wisconsin with 26,116 tons of iron ore,and was on her way to Detroit.The most amazing thing about her wreck was that another ship, the Arthur M Anderson,was trailing her and had on and off visual contact with her during the storm and while watching the radar screen,the radar tech said that she just disappeared.There have been many theories as to why she sank,such as cresting a wave and then taking a nose dive to the bottom,others have said that she lost some of her hatches in the waves and took on water which caused her demise.Robert Ballard,the guy who discovered the Titanic did research on The Edmund Fitzgerald,and even wrote a book about it.If you look at the pictures of her laying on the bottom,you see that she is split in two,and that her bow is caved in.So there is really no solid evidence to point to one particular thing to blame.It could very well have been that as she was finishing cresting one wave her bow started up another wave,causing the center to come up out of the water and then snap in half.There was talk of Mr Ballard returning to the sight again and doing a more in depth study in 05 or 06.I hope he does.I love this stuff!

 

[QUOTE=Mil1ion]How about the Edmund Fitzgerald ?

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Man, I love that story so much. I taped the documentary off of the Discovery channel about the Edmund Fitzgerald and I have one of Gordon Lightfoot's tapes with the song about the Edmund Fitzgerald on it.(They didn't have the CD with the song on it, so I had to buy a tape.) That song is the only reason I bought the tape, and I listen to it quite often.
Mil1ion, have you heard the song about it?

 

Yes, That's why I brought it up.

KT needed something to do

 

Did you happen to notice the pun about her costing 8.4 Mil1ion dollars?

 

Ya, That was Punny

 

Want some more?Ever heard of the Gigantic,the Titanic`s baby sister?

 

Isn't most of the fresh water in the world is in the great lakes?

 

The song is on a CD called "Gord's Gold Volume 2".

MR

 

There's a sign on the waterfront in Superior Wisconsin that has some interesting facts on it, but I can't remember them. It said something like...Lake Superior has enough water to cover the entire United States three feet deep, or one foot deep...or something similar to that. Now that's a lot of water!

MR

 

For the complete story on the Titanic...see this link.

http://www.angryalien.com/0604/titanicbunnies.html

Hey KT, FWIW, an article I just read states 1522 people were lost on the Titanic, including passengers and crew.

 

Hey Triton, Ever hear of the Eastland, down in chicago?