29-07-12, 03:46
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"Mr. Manual", sadly no longer with us
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ottawa ,Canada
Posts: 2,916
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Originally Posted by Mike Cecil
OK, a bit of hunting and I located that it is the 'Monarch of Bermuda' you are referring to, not the 'Empress of Bermuda'.
Monarch of Bermuda was indeed launched in 1931, became the New Australia in 1949, then the Arkadia in 1958, before being broken up in 1966.
Built by Vickers Armstrong. Originally owned by Furness Withy & Co., then to the British Govt (1949), as an immigrant ship and operated by Shaw Saville Line, then sold to Ormos Sg Co (1959).
Monarch of Bermuda was also one of the transports for TC1 and TC3 from Canada, as well as the Norway force convoy. It went on trooping in a number of WS convoys around the Cape, as well KMF22 from the UK to Gibralter and Algiers.
Prewar, it was one of the two 'Millionaires' ships operated by the company, the other being the Queen of Bermuda, on the run from New York to Hamilton, Bermuda.
Mike C
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Empress of Bermuda took the first Canadian troops to Britain, to smite the Hun,in WW 2
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205125990
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