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I know it's been a while since I last did up a ship or boat. I wanted to focus on some stories involving my characters and other ideas I had in mind. But there are still a few I'm interested in.

With that here is the Storstad, the ship that sank the Empress of Ireland.

The Norwegian collier was launched October 4 1910, at Armstrong, Whitworth and Co Low Walker shipyard in Newcastle.

Storstad departed on her maiden voyage on January 31, 1911, from Newcastle to Narvik, Norway, and arriving on February 4. She would sail to Philadelphia that same month loaded with 9,609 tons of iron ore and arrived on March 7. She made voyages to Jacksonville, Savannah, and Hamburg.

After her return trip from Europe, she was chartered to transport iron ore and coal from Wabana and North Sydney to Montreal.

In May 1914, she was chartered by the Dominion Coal Company to transport coal between Sydney and Montreal.

In the early hours of May 29, Storstad was sailing up the Saint Lawrence River bound for Quebec City. At 1:30 am she was nearing the town of Rimouski when another vessel, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland, was heading downriver after departing Quebec City just hours earlier.

The two ships would pass each other starboard to starboard, but a thick fog had enveloped them and visibility was reduced. The Storstad crashed into the Empress's starboard side between her two funnels. The Storstad stopped her engines and broke free from the Empress and disappeared in the fog. The Empress of Ireland was fatally wounded and would roll over onto her side and sink in just 14 minutes with 1,012 passengers and crew losing their lives.

After the Empress of Ireland went down, the Storstad's crew began lowering her lifeboats to ferry survivors and victims back to the damaged freighter. Despite heavy damage to her bow, she managed to limp into Montreal where she was detained.

Storstad was later sunk during World War I by a German u-boat in the Atlantic Ocean on March 8, 1917. Three crewmen were lost.

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I know it's been a while since I last did up a ship or boat. I wanted to focus on some stories involving my characters and other ideas I had in mind. But there are still a few I'm interested in.

With that here is the Storstad, the ship that sank the Empress of Ireland.

The Norwegian collier was launched October 4 1910, at Armstrong, Whitworth and Co Low Walker shipyard in Newcastle.

Storstad departed on her maiden voyage on January 31, 1911, from Newcastle to Narvik, Norway, and arriving on February 4. She would sail to Philadelphia that same month loaded with 9,609 tons of iron ore and arrived on March 7. She made voyages to Jacksonville, Savannah, and Hamburg.

After her return trip from Europe, she was chartered to transport iron ore and coal from Wabana and North Sydney to Montreal.

In May 1914, she was chartered by the Dominion Coal Company to transport coal between Sydney and Montreal.

In the early hours of May 29, Storstad was sailing up the Saint Lawrence River bound for Quebec City. At 1:30 am she was nearing the town of Rimouski when another vessel, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland, was heading downriver after departing Quebec City just hours earlier.

The two ships would pass each other starboard to starboard, but a thick fog had enveloped them and visibility was reduced. The Storstad crashed into the Empress's starboard side between her two funnels. The Storstad stopped her engines and broke free from the Empress and disappeared in the fog. The Empress of Ireland was fatally wounded and would roll over onto her side and sink in just 14 minutes with 1,012 passengers and crew losing their lives.

After the Empress of Ireland went down, the Storstad's crew began lowering her lifeboats to ferry survivors and victims back to the damaged freighter. Despite heavy damage to her bow, she managed to limp into Montreal where she was detained.

Storstad was later sunk during World War I by a German u-boat in the Atlantic Ocean on March 8, 1917. Three crewmen were lost.