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
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
German submarine U-32 (1937)
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German submarine U-32 was a Type VIIA U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
RMS Empress of Britain (1930)
…bomber, commanded by Oberleutnant Bernhard Jope, who hit her twice with 250 kg (550 lb) bombs, before the ship was torpedoed on 28 October 1940 by U-32 and sank. At 42,348 GRT she was one of the largest liners lost in the Second World War and the largest ship sunk by a U-boat. Work began on Empress of…
Pre-war photograph of U-32. Note the boat's number on the conning tower which was erased on the commencement of hostilities