Empress of Scot.
Model Empress of Scotland, 1930 Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company T.1966.10.a.1
The Empress of Scotland was originally known as Empress of Japan. Her name was changed after Japan entered World War II.
Comment by Gordon Turner
Sir George McLaren Brown [Canadian Pacific’s general manager in Europe]… emphasized…that the speed of the Empress of Britain on the St Lawrence route and the Empress of Japan on the Pacific, linked by the company’s cross-Canada rail service, brought the Orient nearer to Europe than ever.
From: Gordon Turner in "Canadian Pacific’s Greatest Ship"
Comment by Eugene W. Smith
The finest, largest and fastest passenger ship the Canadian Pacific has thus far had in Pacific service was … ‘Empress of Japan’. On her maiden voyage from Vancouver to Yokohama, she broke the speed record for the run.
From: Eugene W. Smith in "Passenger Ships of the World – Past and Present"
Questions by Glasgow Museums
Have you sailed on any of the Empress ships? Or taken another record-breaking journey?
Eyewitness by Jenny Warner, WW2 People's War
We eventually left Singapore on the “Empress of Japan”, a ship crowded with women and children. The journey to England was to take around two months and again I have memories of our long time at sea. We were bombed in the earlier stages and torpedo warnings were signalled by a wailing siren.
From: Jenny Warner, WW2 People's War
