RMS Empress of Russia

Empress of Russia
History
Canada
Name	Empress of Russia
Owner	Canadian Pacific Railway
Operator	Canadian Pacific SS Co Ltd
Port of registry	Vancouver
Route	Vancouver – Hong Kong
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan
Yard number	484
Launched	28 August 1912
Completed	March 1913
Maiden voyage	1 April 1913
Identification	Official number: 135197 Code letters JBSQ (until 1933) Call sign VGKW (1934 onward)
Fate	Scrapped 1945, Barrow
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	16,810 GRT tonnage under deck 12,557 8,789 NRT
Length	570 ft (173.7 m)
Beam	68 ft (20.7 m)
Installed power	8,720 NHP
Propulsion	Coal-fired boilers, steam turbines, quadruple screws
Speed	19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Capacity	284 1st class passengers 100 2nd class passengers up to 800 steerage passengers
Notes	sister ship: Empress of Asia

RMS Empress of Russia was a steam turbine ocean liner built in 1912–13 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific steamships (CP). She regularly worked the trans-Pacific route between Canada and the Far East.