Empress of Britain
1931
(Mercator M-548)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 42,348 tons
- Dimensions: 758 x 98 x 33 ft.
- Machinery: Geared steam turbines, quadruple screw, 66,500 BHP = 24 knots
- Passengers: 1,195 (465 1st class, 260 tourist class, 470 third class)
- Crew: 740
- Builder: John Brown & Company, Limited, Clydebank, Scotland 1931
- Service: Built for Canadian Pacific Steamships (British flag). Southampton-Quebec service and cruising. Maiden voyage 27 May 1932. Troopship, Nov 1939. Bound from Egypt for England she was attacked by a German Focke-Wulf Condor off the Irish coast and set afire, 26 October 1940; then sunk two days later by German submarine U 32 (which was herself sunk two days later); 49 lost.
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