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EMPRESS OF ASIA
Code - NL069
£1.75
Class - 2
Date - 1913
Description - EMPRESS OF ASIA NL69
Completed 1913 for Canadian Pacific Railway
Co. with her sister Empress of Russia.
Gross Tonnage 16,910 tons
Dimensions 592’ x 68’ x 29’
Speed 19 knots Passengers 1,180
Built for trans-Pacific routes, both ships served
as Armed Merchant Cruisers from 1914-16 and
served again, this time as troopships 1941/42.
Empress of Asia lost 1942 off Singapore.
