Empress of Britain
1931
(Classic Ship Collection CSC-027VR)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 42,348 tons
- Dimensions: 758 x 97 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turbines, quadruple screws = 24 knots
- Passengers: 1,195 (465 1st class, 260 tourist class, 470 third class)
- Builder: John Brown & Company, Limited, Clydebank, Scotland 1931
- Service: Built for Canadian Pacific Steamships (British flag). Southampton-Quebec service and cruising. Troopship, late 1939. Attacked by German Focke-Wulf Condor off the Irish coast and set afire, 2 October 1940; then sunk two days later by German submarine U-32; 49 lost.
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