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1927 R.M.S \"Empress of Canada\" RPPC N.O.S. For Sale
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1927 R.M.S \"Empress of Canada\" RPPC N.O.S.:
$9.51
The R.M.S.”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. Her home Port was Vancouver, British Columbia. This ship—the first of three CP vessels to be named Empress of Canada, regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between the west coast of Canada and the Asian waters until 1939 when Canada Joined the war. This Empress was a 653-foot (199m) ocean liner measuring 21,517gross tons.
In WW ll, TheEmpress of Canada was commissioned to act as a troop carrier as part of the war effort. On March 14, 1943 she was torpedoed at midnight and sunk by the Italian submarine“Leonardo da Vinci” approximately 400 miles (640km) south of Cape Palmas off the coast of Africa. Of the approximate 1,800 people on board, 392 died.
This RPPC photo was taken in 1927 at it’s home dock in Vancouver.
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