EDMUND FITZGERALD
TITANIC
ESTONIA
EMPRESS OF IRELAND
Edmund Fitzgerald
LOST
November 10,1975 All Hands-Lake Superior.
Caught In "The Perfect Storm" Carrying 26,000 tons of Iorn Ore
The Fitz sank, taking a crew of 29 men with her.
TITANIC
First Class Dinning Room , Titanic
First Class Dinning Room , Titanic
The Passenger,Car Ferry "ESTONIA" left Tillinn for Stockholm Sweden
on Sept. 28, 1994.
With 989 people aboard. Encountering rough sea's to the Bow Door,called The Visor,
(The entire Bow was made to hinge upward to allow for cars and trucks to be driven on board.)
The Bow Door came ajar allowing the sea to rush in, The Estonia capsized and sank.
137 saved
852 lost
"Estonia Bar"
The EMPRESS OF IRELAND
She collided with the Norwegian collier Storstad at about 1:30-2:00 AM May 29, 1914 while running in a dense fog. Her master, Captain Kendall immediately ordered the Empress run aground, but the liner could not respond. She filled with water at a rate of close to 65,000 gallon per second. Only a very few of the passengers made it to the lifeboats. Ten minutes after the collision the Empress rolled onto her side, and minutes later she sank. Only 217 of 1,057 passengers survived, while more than 60% of the crew did (248 out of 420). One of the reasons the vessel sank so fast was failure to have men stationed at the watertight doors throughout the ship as mandated by company policy. Something for which Capatin Kendall was later chastised. She sank in about 150 feet of water and supposedly rises to almost 90 feet. Divers measured a site of impact hole of 14' by 25' where Storstad struck her.