Empress of Britain Canadian Pacific 1931
Original vintage travel poster issued by Canadian Pacific to promote the construction and launch of the ocean liner Empress of Britain, featuring a striking depiction of the ship hull looming large within a shipyard surrounded by construction cranes and scaffolding, smoke billows from a steam locomotive on the tracks below, bold text across the image reads - in 1931 a five day atlantic giantess 40,000 tons for the Canadian Pacific. Built between 1928 and 1931, the RMS Empress of Britain was Canadian Pacific’s largest, fastest, and most luxurious trans-Atlantic liner operating between Canada and Europe. However, her service ended during World War Two when she was bombed by a German aircraft and subsequently torpedoed by U-32 in October 1940, making her the largest ship ever sunk by a U-boat. Good condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, staining, tape marks, backed on linen.
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