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The SS Empress of Ireland left Quebec City on May 28, 1914, at 16:30/4:30 p.m. local time. The ship carried a total of 1,477 passengers and crew. It was struck by the Norwegian coal freighter SS Storstad the following morning at 2:00/2:00 a.m., in heavy fog. There were only 465 survivors from the collision and sinking. The final death toll was 1,012, of which 134 were children and 279 women.
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How many people died in year black 47 the famine?
550,000 people died in 1847 due to famine in Ireland.
How did Ireland almost starve?
In the second half of the 1840s, potato blight destroyed the potato crop in Ireland. At that time it was a major source of food in Ireland. As a result of that famine, many people died and many left Ireland in search of a better life.
How many people died due to scurvy in the Irish famine?
Everyone in Ireland because of the potato famine in the 1900"s
How many polish people live in ireland?
In the census of 2011 there were just over 115,000 Polish people in Ireland
Who converted many people in Britain and Ireland?
monks
