https://legionmagazine.com/empresses-of-the-trans-pacific-fleet/ Fri, 30 Apr 2021 23:59:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://legionmagazine.com/empresses-of-the-trans-pacific-fleet/#comment-61727 Fri, 30 Apr 2021 23:59:19 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=69111#comment-61727 The one ‘Empress’ ship that is part of our family history is the ‘Empress of Ireland’! My wife’s grandmother, Elsie Lillian Gibbs, disembarked the ship on the 14th of September, 1911, at Quebec City. This was the end of a voyage from Liverpool, England. It was shortly after that, that the ship, with many Salvation Army members aboard, left the port of Quebec City and was hit and sunk by a Norwegian coal ship in the St. Lawrence river!

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