&sq=&lang=&file=File:RMS_Empress_of_Canada_docked_at_Vancouver_June_1936.jpg) RMS Empress of Canada docked at Vancouver June 1936.
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Empress of Canada |
| Owner | Canadian Pacific Steamships |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry | 1922–1939: Canada |
| Ordered | 1920 |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan |
| Cost | Approximately $6,800,000 |
| Yard number | 528 |
| Launched | 18 August 1920[1] |
| Completed | May 1922 |
| Maiden voyage | 5 May 1922 |
| In service | 5 May 1922 |
| Out of service | 14 March 1943 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk 14 March 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 21,517 GRT |
| Length | |
| Beam | 77.7 ft (23.7 m)[1] |
| Propulsion | 6 steam turbines |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Capacity |
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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. This ship—the first of three CP vessels to be named Empress of Canada[a]—regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between the west coast of Canada and the Asian waters until 1939.
- ^ a b c Pacific American Steamship Association; Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast (1920). "European Marine Developments". Pacific Marine Review. 17 (November). San Francisco: J.S. Hines: 87–88. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
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