RMS Empress of Canada was an ocean liner built in 1920 for the Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP) by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland.
The liner undertook her maiden voyage on 5 May 1922. Based at the port of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the first Empress of Canada was intended to provide service to the Empire of Japan, Hong Kong, and China. She was at the time the largest vessel ever engaged in trans-Pacific service.[4]
This shipโthe first of three CP vessels to be named Empress of Canada.
Used in trans-Pacific service, she was converted to a troopship during WWII and torpedoed and sunk in 1943, while carrying POW’s and refugees. The final CP ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข was launched in 1961, sold to Carnival Cruise Lines in 1971, renamed the ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ด, and was scrapped in 2003.
Image source: Pacific American Steamship Association; Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast (1922). “The Empress of Canada”. Pacific Marine Review. 19 (July). San Francisco: J.S. Hines: 412โ413.
The breakfast menu of the tourist class is from the New York Public Library, and is dated “Wednesday, October 28th, 1936.
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