Canadian Pacific Steamship Company 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 Atl
Poster of the Canadian Pacific Line advertising its Empress steamers
MV CP Ambassador
RMS Empress of Ireland
SS Mount Temple aground in Canada before the war.
RMS Empress of Britain was a steam turbine ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Scotland, owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and operated by Canad
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
…The company provided Canadian Merchant Navy vessels in World Wars I and II. 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…
First Class lounge in 1931
Advertisement for Empress of Britain's 1931–32 "World Cruise"
Empress of Britain entering drydock in Southampton after colliding with a cargo boat, 20 July 1935. RMS Olympic is seen laid up on the left.
1933 poster by Kenneth Shoesmith