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18 Apr @ 12:34pm
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RMS Empress of Ireland (v2)

In 1 collection by ⚓G011d3n⚓
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Description
Here is the Empress of Ireland (and her sister, Empress of Britain) of the Canadian Pacific Steamship company.

Both ships were built in Scotland to serve the route between Liverpool and Quebec. Both were at the time, the fastest ships making transatlantic runs to Canadian ports. The most famous of the 2, Empress of Ireland, would be known for her sinking on May 29th, 1914 when the Norwegian collier SS Storstad struck the ship on her starboard side in the St Lawrence River. Empress of Ireland sank in 14 minutes, killing 1,012 out of the 1,477 onboard, making her Canada's worst maritime disaster. On April 26th, 1912, just a few weeks after the RMS Titanic sank, Empress of Britain collided with an iceberg, but only caused minor damage to the ship. In July that same year, she would ram and sink the British collier Helvetia in the St Lawrence River in a much similar fashion to what would happen to her sister and the SS Storstad. Empress of Britain would serve as a troopship during WW1, carrying 110,000 troops to the Dardanelles, Egypt and India, and transporting US and Canadian troops across the Atlantic. In December of 1915, she would collide with another steamship and the French transport ship Djuradjura, sinking both of them. Empress of Britain continued regular passenger service after the war, being renamed Montroyal in 1924, and would be broken up for scrap in 1930.


Has bodygroups for names, lifeboats, anchors, rigging, and funnels!

Includes skins for troopship colors, and alternative funnels and hulls.



If you want the models to float:
-Download Buoyancy Tool, and set the value to what ever you want.

Use Collision Resizer if you want to make it smaller.


Model made by TheFabrizio3d
Ported by G011d3n


v1 Model
(Unlike the other older and newer models, you can use these at the same time!)


Enjoy!
6 Comments
⚓G011d3n⚓  [author] 5 Jun @ 2:35pm 
Indeed, and it's thanks to Mike and his team that the disaster is getting the attention it deserves. It's truly a terrifying story.

And no, this isn't Lucas Gustaffson's model (the guy who made the Empress model in that documentary), but some of the liners I have ported here were made by him, and have seen use in some of Oceanliner Designs animations.

You can find Lucas' work on his 3D Warehouse linked in the descriptions of those addons (also recommend supporting him too, his work is incredible).
Alicetutor 5 Jun @ 2:10pm 
This model looks like the one that Mike from Oceanliner Designs used for the "Horrific Tragedy" video that covered the Empress. I recommend to any ship enthusiast to watch it. Honestly this sinking doesn't get much attention compared to the likes of Titanic, and with the short amount of time it took for the empress to sink, Not a lot of stories of survival or love or anything like that... i honestly think this tragedy could have been avoided, it SHOULD have been. Anyway great model. :steamthumbsup:
B... 19 Apr @ 9:21am 
thx bro
Username 19 Apr @ 8:01am 
yay
gorkamorka007 19 Apr @ 4:43am 
Neat
MacHirokiSFM 18 Apr @ 3:14pm 
That was unexpected