White Empresses Of The Pacific
One sheet vintage
Canadian Pacific travel poster from around 1930, advertising its "White Empresses of the Pacific" steamship fleet. This fleet included ships like the Empress of Asia, Empress of Russia, and the Empress of Japan, which was the fastest ocean liner in the world at the time.
Overview
Company: Canadian Pacific Steamships, part of the larger Canadian Pacific Ltd. conglomerate.
Era: The poster dates to around 1930, when the Empress of Japan was launched.
Purpose: To promote luxury passenger travel and the fastest route for mail and cargo between Vancouver and various ports in Asia.
Ports of Call: The map in the poster illustrates the route connecting Vancouver and Victoria with Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila.
The White Empress Fleet
The "White Empresses" were a fleet of large, fast, and luxurious ocean liners that plied the Pacific routes. The ship depicted is widely believed to be the Empress of Japan, the "blue ribbon ship of the Pacific".
Ship Name Key Details
Empress of Japan (c. 1930) The likely ship featured in the poster, known at the time as the largest and fastest liner across the Pacific.
Empress of Asia Another key vessel in the fleet, weighing over 16,000 tons and carrying more than a thousand passengers.
Empress of Russia Part of the core fleet of three ships that served the trans-Pacific route.
Canadian Pacific travel poster from around 1930, advertising its "White Empresses of the Pacific" steamship fleet. This fleet included ships like the Empress of Asia, Empress of Russia, and the Empress of Japan, which was the fastest ocean liner in the world at the time.
Overview
Company: Canadian Pacific Steamships, part of the larger Canadian Pacific Ltd. conglomerate.
Era: The poster dates to around 1930, when the Empress of Japan was launched.
Purpose: To promote luxury passenger travel and the fastest route for mail and cargo between Vancouver and various ports in Asia.
Ports of Call: The map in the poster illustrates the route connecting Vancouver and Victoria with Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila.
The White Empress Fleet
The "White Empresses" were a fleet of large, fast, and luxurious ocean liners that plied the Pacific routes. The ship depicted is widely believed to be the Empress of Japan, the "blue ribbon ship of the Pacific".
Ship Name Key Details
Empress of Japan (c. 1930) The likely ship featured in the poster, known at the time as the largest and fastest liner across the Pacific.
Empress of Asia Another key vessel in the fleet, weighing over 16,000 tons and carrying more than a thousand passengers.
Empress of Russia Part of the core fleet of three ships that served the trans-Pacific route.
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