The Tragic Life of SS Storstad

The SS Storstad is a disaster ship in the true sense of the word; remembered for ramming into the Empress of Ireland only a few months before the outbreak of the First World War, and sending hundreds and hundreds of passengers, crew, and 138 children, to the St Lawrence riverbed. But Storstad would survive a headache-inducing public enquiry into her collision, marked by an incoherent mess of conflicting reports, where it seemed truth was unattainable. She was remarkably repaired and put back into service - yet Storstad and her men lived with the shame of being deemed responsible for the collision, and her crew were vilified by the press and public. And then, during wartime, not even three years after her brush with deep loss on the St Lawrence, she would meet her own untimely fate.

What happens to ships after disaster strikes? After the media storm quietens down, and people attempt to move on - can these giants of the seas shed the battle scars of tragedy and emerge reborn and anew? Ladies and gentlemen I’m your friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs and this is the second in our series on Disaster Ships - this is the story of the unfortunate SS Storstad - once a source of deep pride for her owners, a vessel that would go down in history as a true disaster ship.

Written by: Laney Morgan & Mike Brady
Edited by: Dermott Fairfield

Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines!

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