The reception room on the RMS Empress of Canada
- Date:
- Apr 1922
- Reference:
- BL26060/002
- Type:
- Photograph (Negative)
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Description
The RMS Empress of Canada was built in 1920 by the Scottish shipbuilding firm Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited for the Canadian Pacific Steamships Company, and until 1939 worked on the trans-Pacific route between Canada and the Far East. During the Second World War she was used as a troop ship but in 1943 was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Africa. This photograph is one of a set taken for Fairfield Shipbuilding.
Content
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series of photographic negatives and prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Rights
Source: Historic England Archive
Keywords
Early 20th Century Watercraft, Water Transport
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