An Interesting fact at Rimouski

Found out yesterday that Rimouski was the town closest to the world's third worst disaster  sea.

It was only 7 miles off shore from here ,that the Empress of Ireland a largePassenger Ship went down.

1, 012 perished at sea. Apparently there was he at fog at the time and a Norwegian Ship carrying11 tons of coal  collided with the Empress of Ireland.It penetrated 6 meters into her hull and although locked together initially, once they separated , the Empress went down in 14 mins.A cheery though for us boaters!!!!