Word: empress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between Empire ports. biggest built in Britain since the War. Canadians came by excursion trains to Quebec last week, roared through a new 1 ½ mile-long Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel under the city, came out at a spandy new pier and suddenly beheld the towering white, three-funnelled Empress of Britain...
...From George V and Queen Mary down. British aristocracy gathers every spring on "Varnishing Day" (which opens the London Season) to "oh" and "ah" at what members of the British Royal Academy have done since last spring. Astutely Canadian Pacific turned to Sir John Lavery, R. A. for the "Empress Ballroom" of the Empress of Britain...
Artistically the significance of the Empress of Britain is that she is the first major British ship in modern style. But last week Canadian Pacific officials stressed the fact that she has one Renaissance room, the "Mayfair Lounge," by Sir Charles Allom. In treatment it is not later than King Edward VII, stirs appropriate memories of his mother, Victoria, First Empress of Britain...
...Balmoral, her Scotch estate. Great Victoria liked to surround herself with just such big weatherbeaten Scotsmen as Captain Robert Gilmore ("Jock") Latta of the Empress of Britain. Twenty-seven years ago, "Jock" Latta joined the Canadian Pacific fleet as fourth officer of the S. S. Montezuma, 8,360 tons, 480 ft. long, speed 9 ¾ knots. His twelfth and biggest command is the Empress of Britain, 42,500 tons, 758 ft. long, speed 25.3 knots. On her maiden voyage to Quebec she broke the Britain-to-Canada record, crossing in 5 days, 5 hr., 40 min. With other ships...
Anxious to secure freight at Vancouver, the C. P. R. early in its history chartered three ocean liners. Now its fleet of steamers carries the checkered C. P. R. house flag over Atlantic and Pacific, sometimes around the world. Greatest of the "White Empresses of the Pacific" is Empress of Japan. Greatest on the St. Lawrence-Europe route will soon be Empress of Britain, launched last summer. The ocean-going going and coastal fleet of C. P. R. numbers 57 vessels with a gross tonnage of 468,717. Its inland lake and river fleet has 20 ships...