RMS Empress of Japan (1929)
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RMS Empress of Japan was an ocean liner built in 1929–1930 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships. This ship was the second o
Empress of Japan
1st class children's playroom of Empress of Japan
Empress of Scotland with her decks filled with fighting men. This in-port photograph allows a close view of the ship's construction when ship still had three funnels, circa 1940s.
Hanseatic landing the port of Cuxhaven at Steubenhoeft in summer 1961
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
RMS Empress of Japan (1929)
…Pacific service, but due to the Great Depression the second ship was left unrealized. Instead, the company decided to concentrate their resources on Empress of Britain, a larger version of Empress of Japan under construction for their trans-Atlantic service. Empress of Britain was approximately 16,000 GRT larger than…
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