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RMS Empress of China was an ocean liner built in 1890-1891 by Naval Construction & Armament Co., Barrow, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP). [1] This ship—the first of three CP vessels to be named Empress of China [2] —regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between the west coast of Canada and the Far East until she struck an underwater reef and sank in Tokyo harbour in 1911.
RMS or SS Empress of China may refer to one of these Canadian Pacific Steamship Company ocean liners: . RMS Empress of China (1890), a 5,905 gross register tons (GRT) ship launched from Barrow, England in 1891 as one of the first three ships Canadian Pacific ordered in creating the White Empress fleet; scrapped in 1912.
RMS Empress of China [5] 1890 1891 . Pacific, 1891–1911 1912 1891 RMS Empress of India [6] 1890 1891 SS Loyalty (1914–1919) Pacific, 1891–1914; war service, 1914–1919 (British Raj/Gwalior) 1919 1891 RMS Empress of Japan [7] 1890 1891 . Pacific, 1891–1914; war service, 1914–1919; Pacific, 1919–1922 1926 1906 RMS Empress of Britain ...
RMS Empress of China: 1890 Scrapped in 1912 – Yokohama, Japan R.M.S. Empress of China docked at Vancouver in the year 1893: RMS Empress of Ireland: 1906 Collided with SS Storstad, and sank on May 29, 1914 R.M.S. Empress of Ireland: RMS Empress of Japan: 1890 Scrapped in 1926 R.M.S. Empress of Russia in the year 1894: RMS Empress of Russia: 1912
In 1912 RMS Empress of China struck a reef near Tokyo and was towed to Yokohama and scrapped. All crew and passengers were uninjured. In 1914 RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River. 1,012 passengers died in the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history.
The Canadian Pacific Railway's trans-Pacific Royal Mail contract required the building of the first three of a fleet of steamships: the RMS Empress of China, RMS Empress of India and RMS Empress of Japan which regularly sailed between Vancouver and Asia beginning in 1891. [10]
RMS Empress of Australia was an ocean liner built in 1913–1919 by Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) for the Hamburg America Line. [1] She was refitted for Canadian Pacific Steamships; and the ship – the third of three CP vessels to be named Empress of China [2] – was renamed yet again in 1922 as Empress of Australia.
RMS Empress of India was an ocean liner built in 1890-1891 [1] by Naval Construction & Armaments Co, Barrow-in-Furness, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships. [2] This ship would be the first of two CP vessels to be named Empress of India, [3] and on 28 April 1891, she was the first of many ships named Empress arriving at Vancouver harbor.