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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.
RMS Empress of Britain was a transatlantic ocean liner built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland in 1905–1906 [Note 1] for Canadian Pacific Steamship (CP).
Canadian Pacific Steamships Ocean Services Ltd. (1915–1971) 1917 ... RMS Empress of Britain [22] 1930 1931 . Atlantic, 1931–1939; war service, 1939–1940
CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships.
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 ...
On 5 June 1914, Canadian Pacific Steamships (CPR), who had commissioned the Empress of Ireland, announced it had chartered the Allan Line's Virginian to fill in the void in service in its fleet left by the loss of Empress of Ireland, joining Empress of Britain and other previously acquired Canadian Pacific ships on the St. Lawrence run.
Following the end of World War II Canadian Pacific Steamships in 1946 resumed providing a transatlantic service utilizing the cargo liners Beaverburn and Beaverford, which were joined in 1947-50 by the refitted Empress of Canada (ex-Duchess of Richmond), Empress of France (ex-Duchess of Bedford), and then Empress of Scotland (ex-Empress of Japan). [1]