Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry

Report

 

    COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

     

    INTO

     

    WRECKAGE OF 'EMPRESS OF IRELAND.'

     

    LIST OF EXHIBITS PRODUCED BY MR. ASPINALL, COUNSEL FOR

    STEAMSHIP 'EMPRESS OF IRELAND.'

     

    A. Certified copy of the register of the ship.
    B. Passenger certificate and copy of declaration of survey of passenger steamship - Empress of Ireland.
    C. Copy of report of survey of immigration ship - Empress of Ireland.
    D. Photograph of Empress of Ireland.
    E. Copy of a letter to Capt. Kendall from Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
    F. Return list of crew on articles SS. Empress of Ireland, voyage, - 96 - from Liverpool.
    G. Drawing by Toftenes for Mr. Aspinall.
    H. Letter (printed).
    I. Plan of Empress of Ireland, showing watertight compartments and subdivisions.
    J. Transversal plan of Empress - watertight subdivisions and doors closing bulkheads.
    J-1. Orlop deck - plan.
    K. Plan of lower deck steam piping arrangements.
    L. Plan showing passenger accommodation.
    M. Plan showing boat deck.
    N. Plan showing midship section of Empress of Ireland.
    O. Drawing by witness Saxe for Mr. Aspinall; is also exhibit 11 Storstad.
    P. Captain's trip report, Dominion Coal Company.
    Q. List of passengers and crew, Empress of Ireland, first cabin.
    R. Ship articles.
    S. Passenger certificate and declaration of a passenger steamship.
    T. Emigrant ship certificate.
    U. Rules for preliminary inquiries and formal investigations into shipping casualties.
    V. Log, Empress of Ireland.
    X. Specification of a steel iron screw passenger steamer hull.
    Y. Specification of a steel iron screw passenger steamer machinery.
    Z. Empress of Ireland curve of stability at time of accident.
    a1. Stowage plan.
    b1. Summary of cargo of Empress of Ireland.
    c1. Statements by passengers produced by Mr. Newcombe.
    d1. Rigging plan of Empress of Ireland.
    d2. Hold plan arrangements of Empress of Ireland.
    * Not printed.
    d3. Orlop and lower decks arrangement of Empress of Ireland.
    d4. Arrangement of main and upper decks, Empress of Ireland.
    d5. Arrangement of shelter and lower promenade decks.
    d6. Upper promenade and boat decks arrangements, Empress of Ireland.
    d7. Plan showing displacement curves of Empress of Ireland.
    d8. Plan showing stability curves of SS. Empress of Ireland and Empress of Britain.
    e1. Report by Board of Trade Surveyors' Office, Liverpool.
    f1. Amended questions - signed E. L. Newcombe.
    g1. Metacentric calculation of Empress of Ireland as she left Father Point.
    h1. Document from divers of H.M.S. Essex.

     

    LIST OF EXHIBITS PRODUCED BY MR. HAIGHT, COUNSEL FOR STEAMSHIP 'STORSTAD.'

     

    EXHIBITS.

     

    1. Drawing by Capt. Kendall.
    2. Drawing by Toftenes.
    3. Drawing by Capt. Anderson - Ineffectual.
    4.       "               "           "
    5.       "               "           "
    6.       "               "           "
    7. A-B-C-D-E-F - Photographs of stern of Storstad.
    8. Letter by J. Walsh to Capt. Griffiths.
    9. Dominion Coal Company time charter party.
    10. Model describing stern of Storstad; one-quarter inch to the foot.
    11. Drawing by Jacob Saxe.
    12. Empress of Ireland cabin No. 328.
    13. Scrap log - engines.
    14. Log-book - engine.
    15. Deck log.
    16. Translation of deck log.
    17. Scrap deck log produced by Toftenes, examined by Mr. Aspinall.
    18. Scraps produced by Toftenes.
    19. Plan drawn by Mr. Reid.
    20. Drawing by Mr. Reid.
    21. Drawing by Mr. Reid.
    22. General plan of Storstad.

     

    CHARTS.

     

    A. Showing point of collision as marked by Kendall for Mr. Aspinall.
    B. Showing courses as marked by Toftenes, point of collision as marked by Toftenes, and wreck (G) marked by Gagnon.
    C. Marked by Kendall, course of Empress and supposed course of Storstad.
    D. Lapierre's chart (French), showing location of passing Empress by S.S. Alden.
    E. Gagnon's chart, showing bearing of wreck buoy.
    F. Chart produced by Mr. Aspinall.

     

    LIST OF STATEMENTS PRODUCED BY COUNSEL FOR THE CROWN.

     

    EXHIBITS.

     

    AA. Letter produced by Mr. Newcombe with questions to be solved by the Commission.
    BB. Statement handed in by Counsel for Canadian Pacific Railway—Service of document admitted.
    CC. Copy of Canadian Pacific Regulations for the Navigation and Discipline of the Steamships.

     

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