The Empress of Ireland: Canada's Forgotten Titanic

Just two years after the Titanic, another great liner went to the bottom with over a thousand people aboard, and the world barely remembers it. The Empress of Ireland was rammed in thick fog on the St Lawrence River in 1914 and sank in just fourteen minutes, taking more than a thousand lives. Then the First World War broke out weeks later, and the tragedy was swallowed by history.

In this episode of Six Feet of History, August Mercer walks you through the collision in the fog, the terrifying speed of the sinking, and why Canada's worst peacetime maritime disaster became its forgotten Titanic. Six Feet of History is a daily true history podcast digging up the dark, forgotten, and untold stories of the past. New episode every day.

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