Empress of Australia, 1914

Item

Identifier: imm-0109

Staff Only

Image of Empress of Australia (1914); mkey 105972

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Immigration and Steamships database contains descriptive information about 320 passenger and immigrant vessels built from 1833 to 1929. Records may identify the vessel, year built, shipping line, builder and place of construction, tonnage and dimensions, machinery and speed, masts and funnels, passenger capacities, routes, and vessel history. Most records are associated with one or more images from Mystic Seaport Museum collections.

Dates

Creation: 1914

Extent

From the Collection: 320 record(s)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Vessel Details

Line: Canadian Pacific Line

Builder and location: A. G. "Vulkan" Werke, Stettin, Germany

Tonnage and dimensions: 21,883 tons; 588' x 75'

Machinery and speed: Twin-screw, 19 knots

Masts and funnels: 2 masts, 3 funnels

Passengers: 1st class: 400; 2nd class: 150; 3rd class: 630

Routes: Trans-Pacific; Southampton-Cherbourg-Quebec-Montreal

History: Launched as TIRPITZ (Hamburg-American Line), but completed as a royal yacht for the Kaiser. Ceded to Great Britain in 1919. Sold to Canadian Pacific in 1922, renamed EMPRESS OF CHINA, then EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA (1922).

Legacy record identifier: Empress of Australia1914