The Shipping News

[Tony Smith]

Originally posted by Alex Blair
Tony
The Empress of Ireland was sunk in a collision in the St Lawerence River in Canada..Here are some other Empresses..
And other great ocean liners...

http://www.greatoceanliners.net/index2.html

Well, well. I could'nt find all of the troopships on that site, Alex, but the Empresses of Canada, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, Australia and Japan were all owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Interestingly, the Empress of Australia wasn't a Canadian built ship, but was war reparations from the German Hamburg-Amerika line.
Curiously, the "Commonwealth" Empresses were all regal titles of Queen Victoria, but how did Empress of Japan slip in there?
And yet another question, wasn't the correct company name for that rail company the Canadian Pacific RAILROAD, or is that a later version?