Empress of England
1957
(Albatros AL-244)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 25,585 tons
- Dimensions: 640 x 85 ft.
- Machinery: Geared steam turbines, twin screw, 30,000 SHP = 20 knots
- Passengers: 1058 (160 first class, 898 tourist class)
- Crew: 464
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Shipbuildrs Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 1957
- Service: Built for Canadian Pacific Steamships (British flga). Liverpool-Eastern Canada service and cruising. Sold to Shaw-Savill Line (British flag), 1970; renamed Ocean Monarch, England-Australia service as well as considerable cruising. Scrapped on Taiwan, 1975.
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