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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 Britain was a transatlantic ocean liner built by Fairfield Shipbuilding at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland in 1955-1956 [1] for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP). This ship — the third of three CP vessels to be named Empress of Britain [2] —regularly traversed the trans-Atlantic route between Canada and Europe until 1964, completing 123 voyages under the Canadian Pacific flag.
This ship – the first of three CP ships to be named Empress of Britain [Note 2] – regularly traversed the transatlantic crossing between Canada and Europe until 1923, with the exception of the war years. Empress of Britain was the sister ship of RMS Empress of Ireland, which was lost in 1914.
RMS Empress of Britain (1955), a 25,500-gross ton ship capable of 20 knots; one of the first North Atlantic liners to have air conditioning; sister ship of Empress of England; liner service until 1963; sold to a number of different companies and has served under many different names, mostly as a cruise ship in 2008, she was sold for scrap
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.
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 ...
Empress of Britain sank at 02:05 on 28 October 1940. At 42,348 gross tons, she was the largest ship sunk by a German U-boat. [6] [7] During seven patrols he sank 17 ships, including the 42,348-ton RMS Empress of Britain, for a career total of 110,139 GRT, as well as damaging 3 ships for 22,749 tons, including the cruiser HMS Fiji. [8]
RMS Empress of England was an ocean liner built in 1956-1957 by Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom for the Canadian Pacific Steamships. The ship was launched in 1956; and she undertook her maiden voyage in 1957 and was a near identical sister ship to Empress of Britain .