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
Hamburg Atlantic Line was an ocean liner and cruise ship operating company established in Hamburg, West Germany in 1958 by Axel Bitsch Christensen and Vernicos Eugenides, the latter being the adopted
RMS Empress of Japan (1929)
…the Far East until 1942. In 1942, she was renamed RMS Empress of Scotland – the second of two CP vessels to be named Empress of Scotland. In 1957, the Hamburg Atlantic Line purchased the ship and re-named her TS Hanseatic. By the 1920s the Canadian Pacific conglomerate had established a sea/rail connection between Europe…
The first TS Hanseatic photographed around 1963
A manipulated photograph showing the TS Hamburg in German Atlantic Line colours
MS Hanseatic in Paradise Bay, Antarctica, February 2001, still sporting Hanseatic Tours livery