The entrance to A Deck on board the RMS Empress of Australia
- Date:
- Jun 1927
- Reference:
- BL29020/007
- Type:
- Photograph (Negative)
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Description
The RMS Empress of Australia was built between 1913-1919 for the Hamburg America Line. She was seized as war reparation in 1919 and sold to Canadian Pacific Steamships. This photograph, taken for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, shows the Empress of Australia following a re-fit begun in 1926. On June 25th 1927 she undertook her first voyage after refurbishment, crossing the Atlantic from Southampton to Quebec City. Amongst the passengers were the Prince of Wales, Prince George, Duke of Kent and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
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
People & Organisations
Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford: Bedford Lemere And Company
Keywords
Early 20th Century Watercraft, Water Transport
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