Eternally Lost at Sea: A Comparative Essay on the Effect of the Demise of the Empress of Ireland and the Titanic Everyone knows of the tragedy that occurred on April 15, 1912. The most famous ocean liner ever constructed sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, not to be seen by human eyes again for seventy-three years. But why is the disaster of the Titanic so widely known? Not more than two years later, in …showed first 75 words of 1435 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1435 total…e that made her a legend. Endnotes 1 David Zeni, Forgotten Empress. (Great Britain: Halsgrove, 1988) 188. 2 RMS Titanic Page, 21 June 1997, BBC h2g2 Online. 15 November 2003 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A372584#back1>. 3 Titanic Page, 24 May 1999, The Great Ocean Liners. 15 November 2003 <http://www.greatoceanliners.net/index2.html>. 4 Exhibit: Titanic Memorandum Page, 15 April 1988, National Archives and Records Administration. 15 November 2003 <http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/american_originals/titanic.html>. 5 Zeni, 188. 7