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Fairfield's built Empress of Britain in its yard at Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. [1] [2] She was launched on 11 November 1905.[3]Empress of Britain at Liverpool in 1905. The 14,189 GRT ship had an overall length of 570 feet (170 m) and her beam was 65.7 feet (20.0 m).
In her time Empress of Britain was the largest, fastest and most luxurious ship between the United Kingdom and Canada, and the largest ship in the Canadian Pacific fleet. She was spotted by a German Focke-Wulf C 200 Condor long-range bomber , commanded by Oberleutnant Bernhard Jope , who hit her twice with 250 kg (550 lb) bombs, before the ship ...
RMS Empress of China [5] 1890 1891 . Pacific, 1891–1911 1912 1891 RMS Empress of India [6] 1890 1891 SS Loyalty (1914–1919) Pacific, 1891–1914; war service, 1914–1919 (British Raj/Gwalior) 1919 1891 RMS Empress of Japan [7] 1890 1891 . Pacific, 1891–1914; war service, 1914–1919; Pacific, 1919–1922 1926 1906 RMS Empress of Britain ...
RMS Empress of Britain: 1930 Torpedoed and sunk on October 28, 1940, by a German U-boat: R.M.S. Empress of Britain in 1931. RMS Empress of Canada: 1920 Torpedoed and sunk in 1943 by the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci: R.M.S. Empress of Canada docked at Vancouver in June 1936: RMS Empress of China: 1890 Scrapped in 1912 – Yokohama, Japan
Empress of Britain may refer to one of these Canadian Pacific Steamship Company ocean liners: RMS Empress of Britain (1905) , 14,189-gross ton ship capable of 18 knots; scrapped in 1930 RMS Empress of Britain (1930) , 42,348-gross ton ship capable of 24 knots; torpedoed and sunk 28 October 1940 by German U-boat U-32 , the largest ship sunk by a ...
Twelve vessels were lost due to enemy action in World War II, including the RMS Empress of Britain, which was the largest ship ever sunk by a German U-boat. The company moved to a model of container shipping from passenger, freight and mail service in the 1960s due to competitive pressure from the airline industry.
The ship was refitted for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP) and in 1921, she was renamed Empress of Scotland—the first of two CP ships to bear that name. [3] The vessel ended service in 1930 and was sold for scrap. During the demolition of the ship, the vessel caught fire, broke in two and sank. The hulls were raised and scrapped.
Pages in category "Ships built in Govan" ... (1910) HMS Cressy (1899) HMS Croome (L62) ... RMS Empress of Britain (1905) RMS Empress of Canada (1920) ...