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1: Service with Canadian Pacific 1956-63
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- This is the first of three
pages devoted to the Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Britain.
This page covers her Canadian Pacific career between 1956-63.
Page
2 covers her career
with Greek Line and Carnival Cruises 1963-94. Page 3 covers her subsequent career with Royal Olympic
and Thomson Cruises from 1995.
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- The Empress of Britain was built in 1956 by Fairfields
of Glasgow, preceding sister Empress of England into service by one year. She
was Britain's first fully air-conditioned liner. Initially running
on the North Atlantic from Liverpool, she ran her first winter
Caribbean cruise from New York in January 1960. As time passed,
more of her time was spent cruising as air travel hit the Atlantic
market, and her final Atlantic voyage was number 123, completed
in October 1963, only seven years after her maiden voyage.
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- She was sold to the Greek Line, and re-entered service for them
as Queen
Anna Maria
in 1965, running a fortnightly service to New York calling at
Naples and Lisbon. Following the collapse of the Greek Line,
she was sold to Carnival, joining the the Mardi Gras (ex-Empress of Canada) in 1975 as the Carnivale. Following the numerous new deliveries
to Carnival, she was transferred to subsidiary Fiesta Marine
Cruises as Fiesta
Marina. She
was sold again in 1994 to Epirotiki as Olympic, and has recently been on charter
to British tour company Thomson as the Topaz. In 2002, Topaz received a new
colour scheme.
She is replaced in the Thomson fleet in the spring of 2003, and
she was then chartered to Peace
Boat.
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- It is easy to tell the
two sisters apart, since the Empress of Britain has windows spaced 2-2-2 on the
boat deck each side under the bridge wings, whereas on Empress of England they are spaced 2-1-2. The third
ship, Empress
of Canada was
quite distinct, with a different funnel top and more superstructure
forward of the bridge.
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- Ship Names Carried:-
- Empress
of Britain postcards - Canadian Pacific Line postcards (1956-63)
- Empress
of Britain memorabilia - Canadian Pacific Line memorabilia
- Queen Anna Maria - Greek Line 1963-75
- Carnivale - Carnival Cruise Line 1975-94
- Fiesta Marina
- Olympic - Epirotiki Line 1995-
- Topaz - Thomson Cruises 1998-2003
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- Empress of Britain Pages:-
- Empress
of Britain - Page 1 - Canadian Pacific Line 1956-63 - this page!
- Empress
of Britain - Page 2 - Career following sale by Canadian Pacific 1963
- Empress
of Britain - Page 3 - Royal Olympic and Thomson Cruises 1995-
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- Canadian Pacific Pages:-
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5 - West
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- Empress of Britain
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Pacific: 1956-63)
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- 25500 Gross Tons,
Length: 640ft
- 160 first class,
894 tourist passengers (650 on cruising)
- Speed 20 knots,
Engines: Steam turbines, twin screw
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- Canadian Pacific Line official letter
card of Empress of Britain.
- Scan:
Ken Muratama
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image in new window
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- Canadian
Pacific Line sepia official card of Empress of Britain.
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faint diagonal lines on the scan are on the original card!
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- Canadian
Pacific Line monochrome official card of Empress of Britain.
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- Canadian
Pacific Line official card of the Tourist Children's Playroom
on Empress of Britain. The card was posted from the North Cape on 23rd
June 1964, whilst on a cruise, as shown by the postmark and stamp
on the card back shown below.
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- Aune
commercial card (s/n F-2382-5) of Empress of Britain at
Trondheim.
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- Salmon
commercial card of Empress of Britain, painted by C.A.Garman
(s/n 5340).
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- Salmon
commercial card of Empress of Britain, at Liverpool Pier
Head (s/n 1-06-02-04/2123c).
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- After
the Battle commercial card of Empress of Britain, photo
by Beken of Cowes (s/n P135).
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- Photographic
postcard of Empress of Britain.
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- Photographic
postcard of Empress of Britain.
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- Photographic
postcard of Empress of Britain.
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- Empress of Britain Memorabilia
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by Tom Marshall)
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- A selection of memorabilia
from a voyage from the UK to Canada in September 1956 - the first
year in service for Empress of Britain. Click on an image
to see a larger copy open in a new window.
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- Gala Night menu
cover.
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- Extract
from the passenger list.
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- Extract
from sailing schedules and fares list.
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- Programme
for 17/09/1956
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- Breakfast
menu.
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- Final
dinner menu.
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- Empress
of Britain
drinks coaster.
- Scan
supplied by Chris Hunt.
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Britain - Page 2 - Empress of Britain - Page 3
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