It was the first trip for the Empress of Ireland. However, disaster for the Empress of Ireland had been in store. The Storstad had to send the Empress to the bottom of the St. Lawrence River.  The Empress of Ireland took all but 462 of the 1477 souls on board with it. Today, the Empress of Ireland still lies in its resting place occasionally visited by those divers who brave the cold dark depths.

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