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Excerpt from The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland: An Authentic Account of the Most, Horrible Disaster in Canadian History, Tory, Constructed From the Real, Facts Obtained From Those on Board Who Survived, and Other Great Sea Disasters Number of persons aboard, 1,475. Number of persons saved, 397. Number of persons dead, 1,078. Total number of first-class passengers, 87. Total number of second-class passengers, 256. Total number of third-class passengers, 717. Total number of crew, 415. The Salvation Army Delegation numbered 150; of these 124 were lost. The Empress of Ireland was a twin-screw vessel of 14,500 tons. The vessel was built in Glasgow in 1906 by the Fairfield Company, Ltd., and was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Storstad is a single-screw vessel, registering 6,028 tons. The vessel was built by the Armstrong, Whitworth Company at Newcastle in 1911, and is owned by the Dampsk Aktieselk Maritime of Christiania, Norway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.