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The builder’s model of the passenger liner RMS Empress of Britain at the Glasgow Transport Museum, 2 March 2007. The Empress of Britain was built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, being launched in 1930 and completed in 1931 for the Canadian Pacific Line’s Trans Atlantic Southampton - Quebec service. It was originally intended that she be a sister ship for the Empress of Scotland but in fact she was redesigned into a very much larger ship. She measured 760 ft x 98 ft x 33 ft, weighed 42,348 tons gross, had 12,745 nhp (62,500 ihp), oil-fired steam turbines, 4 screws and a service speed of 24 kts (25.5 kts on trial). The Empress of Britain was the largest liner ever built for the UK - Canada service and at the time she was built the most luxurious and fastest on it. Intended to use the most Northerly route in the North Atlantic where ice would be encountered, the Empress of Britain was built with an especially strong hull, having double thickness steel in the bows. With the St. Lawrence Seaway being ice-bound in Winter, the Empress of Britain was designed for cruising in that season and was the largest ship that could traverse the Panama Canal and Suez Canal. She was the largest ship to visit Australia in 1938. Although she was the most economical steamship in the world with the lowest fuel consumption per horsepower-hour, she struggled to make a profit. On the outbreak of WWII in 1939 the Empress of Britain was converted into a troopship to take Canadian soldiers to England. Unfortunately, in 1940 when off the Irish Coast she was spotted by a Focke Wulf Fw200 Condor which bombed her and set her on fire. Although the ship did not sink and was taken in tow, the bomber had sent off reports to U-boats and U-32 hit her with two torpedoes causing a massive explosion, after which she sunk – the largest liner sunk in WWII and the largest ship sunk by a U-boat. Luckily, most of the crew and passengers had already been taken off by escorting ships – as well as a large consignment of gold on its way to the USA to pay for arms. |
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| Author | Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK |
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