![]() Empress of Russia
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Name | Empress of Russia |
Owner | Canadian Pacific Railway |
Operator | ![]() |
Port of registry | Vancouver |
Route | Vancouver – Hong Kong |
Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan |
Yard number | 484 |
Launched | 28 August 1912 |
Completed | March 1913 |
Maiden voyage | 1 April 1913 |
Identification |
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Fate | Scrapped 1945, Barrow |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | |
Length | 570 ft (173.7 m) |
Beam | 68 ft (20.7 m) |
Installed power | 8,720 NHP |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Capacity |
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Notes | sister ship: Empress of Asia |
RMS Empress of Russia was a steam turbine ocean liner built in 1912–13 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific steamships (CP). She regularly worked the trans-Pacific route between Canada and the Far East.
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