Category Archives: Canadian Pacific
Museum Gets Big Empress of Japan Model
A retired Vancouver, British Columbia, surgeon has donated a massive model of Empress of Japan (1930) and some 20,000 other ocean liner artifacts to the Vancouver Maritime Museum. The fastest and most luxurious liner in the Pacific, Empress of Japan dominated the … Continue reading
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DNA Evidence Reverses Liner-Related Murder Case
A new report demolishes the central piece of evidence in history’s most sensational crime case involving an ocean liner—the 1910 conviction and execution of London doctor Hawley Crippen for killing and dismembering his wife. The study’s release is likely to … Continue reading
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The End of an Era
The death yesterday of Audrey Lawson-Johnston in Melchbourne, England, marked not only the passing of the final known Lusitania survivor, but the end of an era. Over the span of just 37 terrible and calamitous months, three legendary liners sailed … Continue reading
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A Liner With An Identity Crisis
Returning to this blog’s continuing topic of long-lived ocean liners, here’s a vessel that is perhaps best known for her long life under an almost equally long list of identities: sailing at various times and for various lines under the … Continue reading
Posted in Allan Line, Canadian Pacific, Drottningholm, Home Lines, Homeland, Swedish American Line, Victorian, Virginian
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My Favorite Ocean Liner Hotel
Ocean liner hotels—that is, hotels owned and operated by a shipping line—were a unique breed. Located in port cities and usually positioned at or very close to the point of embarkation, the hotels served legions of globetrotting businessmen and wealthy … Continue reading
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Empress of Canada — Liner of Destiny
Sometimes there’s a ship that seems perfectly ordinary, yet due to a convergence of fate ends up playing a major role in ocean liner history. Such a ship was Empress of Canada. Empress of Canada wasn’t renowned for her external … Continue reading
About Atlantic
Author Simon Winchester, who wrote two of my favorite books—The Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything—has now turned his attention to one of my favorite oceans in Atlantic. In this article, he talks about his love of … Continue reading
Empress of Ireland Negotiations Break Down
Bargaining between the Canadian Museum of Civilization and a diver/collector for a planned Empress of Ireland exhibition have reportedly reached an impasse. The museum was said to have been looking to purchase some 200 objects, including a bell, porthole and … Continue reading
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Unique Accommodations
I’ve never visited the Empress of Ireland pavilion in Point au Père, Quebec, which has the largest display of artifacts recovered from the infamous 1914 wreck as well as various information resources. But if I did go for a visit, … Continue reading
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