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| Launched 1928: ss DUCHESS OF RICHMOND |
ss DUCHESS OF RICHMOND
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ss DUCHESS OF RICHMOND
built by John Brown Clydebank,
Yard No 523
Last Name: EMPRESS OF CANADA
Propulsion: Twin Screw, 2 x 3 Parsons Turbine, 20, 000 SHP, 17.5 knots Cruising, 19 knots mAX
Launched: Monday, 18/06/1928
Built: 1928
Ship Type: Passenger Vessel
Ship's Role: Transatlantic passages to Canada
Tonnage: 20022 grt
Length: 600 feet
Breadth: 75 feet
Owner History:
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Status: Arrived for Scrapping - 10/10/1954
Web site: http://www.greatships.net/empresscanada2.html
Remarks: Collided with Cunard's ALAUNIA, off Sorel, Quebec in November 1932
Requisitioned for trooping 14th February 1940
Refurbished May 1946 at Fairfield's, Govan
Entered peacetime service again on 12th July 1947 as the EMPRESS OF CANADA
On 25th January 1953 she caught fire in the Gladstone Dock, Liverpool.
In an effort to put out the fire, the volume of water pumped into her caused her her to list and she sunk in the dock where she remained until March 1954 when she was righted. The salvage operation coast a whopping half a million pounds, an incredible sum in the fifties, but to no avail. She was declared a total loss and was towed to La Spezia later that year and scrapped.
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Previous update by Bruce Biddulph, George Robinson
Last updated: by Bruce Biddulph from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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