Saturday, January 22, 2011

Dillsboro and another historical event you probably never heard of before until you heard about it from me - a similar survivor.




http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/S/Star_Trek_Generations_CD2.html

Star Trek Generations


Dill.

[ Excuse me? ]

Dill weed.|In the cabinet, second shelf to the left.

Behind the oregano.
- How long have you been here?|- I don't know.
I was aboard the Enterprise-B in|the deflector control room ... Stir these.
The bulkhead disappeared and then I|found myself out there chopping wood -
- right before you walked up










from 5/29/1914 to 1/19/1993 is 28725 days










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillsboro,_North_Carolina

Dillsboro, North Carolina


ZIP code 28725


Dillsboro is a town in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States. The town is a popular tourist location, at which visitors tend to stop on their way into the Great Smoky Mountains. The town of Sylva is located just one mile (1.6 km) east of Dillsboro and is the county seat. The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad begins in Dillsboro and follows the historic "Murphy Branch" constructed in the 1880s. The population was 205 at the 2000 census.


The infamous train wreck scene in the 1993 blockbuster movie The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones was filmed in Off The Rip along the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. The wreckage set can still be viewed on eastbound train excursions from Bryson City.










http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/lancashire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8492000/8492960.stm

BBC

Page last updated at 13:13 GMT, Thursday, 2 September 2010 14:13 UK


The Empress of Ireland was launched in 1906 and belonged to the Canadian Pacific Line. During the summer she sailed between Liverpool and Canada.

Ice flows

On her first trip of the summer on 29 May 1914, the Empress of Ireland sailed away from her berth in Quebec Harbour bound for Liverpool. Only nine hours into her voyage, at about 2am, she was hit by a Norwegian collier ship, the Storstad.

Roger explains: "She was rammed in fog, in the dark, in the St. Lawrence river. It was a complete accident, but unfortunately the ship that hit her was reinforced to go through the ice flows on the river.

"The collier went into the ship and left a 14 foot gash that took about 60,000 gallons of water a second. She sank in only 14 minutes."

Most of the passengers were already in their cabins asleep, but a lot of the crew were still about their duties. "What isn't realised is that there were more passengers lost off this ship than there were off the Titanic - more than a thousand," says Roger.

As the temperature of the water was near freezing, many died from hypothermia.

Blown to the surface

But the tragedy never made the news in the way the Titanic did. No one particularly famous was on board, it wasn't a maiden voyage, and the world was soon at war.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Ireland

RMS Empress of Ireland

RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner built in 1905 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP). This Empress was distinguished by the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) prefix in front of her name because the British government and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) had decades earlier reached agreement on a mail subsidy contract between Britain and Hong Kong via Canada.

While steaming on the St. Lawrence River in fog, the Empress was struck amidships by the Norwegian collier (coal freighter) SS Storstad; and the fatally damaged vessel sank very quickly in the early morning of 29 May 1914. This accident claimed 1,073 lives, making it the deadliest maritime disaster in Canadian history.


Early the next morning on 29 May 1914, the ship was proceeding down the channel near Pointe-au-Père, Quebec (eastern district of the town of Rimouski) in heavy fog. At 02:00 local time, the Norwegian collier SS Storstad crashed into the side of the Empress of Ireland. The Storstad did not sink, but Empress of Ireland, with severe damage to her starboard side, listed rapidly, taking on water. Most of the passengers and crew in the lower decks drowned quickly when water poured into the ship from the open portholes, some of which were only a few feet above the water line. However, many passengers and crew in the upper deck cabins, awakened by the collision, made it out onto the boat deck and into some of the lifeboats which were being loaded immediately. Within a few minutes after the collision, the Empress of Ireland had listed so far on her starboard side that it became impossible to launch any more lifeboats than the four that had already been launched. Ten or eleven minutes after the collision, the ship lurched violently on her starboard side in which as many as 700 passengers and crew crawled out of the portholes and decks onto her side. For a minute or two, the Empress of Ireland lay on her side, while it seemed to the passengers and crew that the ship had run aground. But a few minutes later, about 14 minutes after the collision, the ship's stern rose briefly out of the water, and her hull sank out of sight, throwing the hundreds of people still on her port side into the near-freezing water. Exactly 1,024 people died. Of that number, 840 were passengers, eight more than the RMS Titanic.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Ireland

RMS Empress of Ireland

RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner built in 1905


Legend of Emmy

The ship's cat Emmy, a loyal orange tabby who had never once missed a voyage, repeatedly tried to escape the ship near departure on 28 May 1914. The crew could not coax her aboard and the Empress departed without her. It was reported that Emmy watched the ship sail away from Quebec City sitting on the roof of the shed at Pier 27, which would later become a place for the dead pulled from the river.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_Kendall

Henry George Kendall

Henry George Kendall (30 January 1874 - 28 November 1965) was a British sea captain.

Captain Henry Kendall began his career in sailing ships in 1888 at the age of 14. 8 years later he got married to Jane 'Minnie' Jones. In 1900 he survived a shipwreck on the Newfoundland coast when he was an officer on the SS Lusitania (a predecessor to the RMS Lusitania torpedoed in World War I). Two years later he worked with Guglielmo Marconi to develop ship-to-shore radio before getting his first command in 1908. Two years later he was appointed captain of the Canadian Pacific Line's SS Montrose and within months had become famous following his role in the capture of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, the London cellar murderer, in what was the first use of radio to capture a criminal. Kendall's radio messages alerted Scotland Yard and Inspector Dew was dispatched to Canada on the faster ship, the White Star Line's SS Laurentic, and arrived in Canada before Montrose. Disguised as a pilot, Dew boarded Montrose and arrested Crippen.

In May 1914 Kendall was appointed Captain of the RMS Empress of Ireland. Almost month later the ship sank in Canada's Saint Lawrence River after colliding with the Storstad, a Norwegian coal freighter with an ice-breaking bow. The accident occurred at night. The two ships were head to head when a fog bank rolled onto the river and Storstad changed position, believing the Empress to be on the Storstad's port side. This turned the freighter into the side of the larger ship, which was passing on the starboard side. The damage was catastrophic and the Empress sank in just 14 minutes with the loss of 1,012 people. Kendall was thrown from the bridge when the ship keeled over suddenly but survived; he was cleared of all charges in the disaster.

Soon afterwards he was posted to Antwerp, Belgium, where he was soon in the news again. As the Germans invaded Belgium, the British Consulate in Antwerp was besieged by around 600 refugees. Kendall worked with the consul Sir Cecil Hertslet to formulate a plan to rescue them by using the Montrose to tow the SS Montreal, which was out of commission, out of the port and on to England.

Kendall then joined the crew of HMS Calgarian and served with the ship until 1918, during which time he was mentioned in despatches on several occasions. In March 1918 Calgarian was torpedoed off the Ulster coast by German submarine U-19 but Kendall survived again. He went on to serve as a King's Messenger before being appointed Commodore of Convoys. When the war ended he was appointed Marine Superintendent at Southampton by Canadian Pacific and remained there until he moved to a similar position in London in 1924. He died in an English nursing home in 1965 at the age of 91.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/locations

IMDb

The Internet Movie Database

Filming locations for

The Fugitive (1993)


Blue Ridge Parkway, Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina, USA


Dillsboro, North Carolina, USA


Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, Dillsboro, North Carolina, USA










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/quotes

IMDb

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Memorable quotes for

The Fugitive (1993)


Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Look on your maps if you wanna know how to get there!