Empress of Russia
1943
(Albatros ALK-130)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 16,909 tons
- Dimensions: 592 x 68 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turbines, quadruple screws = 20 knots
- Passengers: 1192 (284 first class, 100 second class, 808 steerage)
- Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Limited, Glasgow, Scotland, 1913
- Service: Built for Canadian Pacific Steamships. Vancouver-Far East service. Served as a wartime cruiser, then as a troopship, 1914-19. Resumed Far East service, 1920-40. Wartime troopship, 1940-45. Caught fire while being reconditioned as a shipyard at Barrow, England, September 8, 1945; totally destroyed. Wreckage scrapped, 1946.
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