Oceans of Fate Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia
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Oceans of Fate Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia

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Full Title

Oceans of Fate Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia
Author(s)

Dan Black
Edition
ISBN

9781459752528, 9781459752511, 9781459752535
Publisher

Dundurn
Format

PDF and EPUB

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The remarkable story of how one ship — doomed by war — intersected lives and crossed into history. Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly 30 years. Built for long-haul ocean travel during peace-time, she saw wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser and troopship before Japanese dive-bombers destroyed her in 1942. Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, she brought continents and people together, delivering mail and multimillion-dollar consignments of silk. As a luxurious passenger liner, she was a “Greyhound of the Pacific,” braving epic storms and smashing transpacific speed records. From stokehold to bridge, steerage to first-class staterooms, she steamed with a kaleidoscope of lives, including courageous and recalcitrant crew, immigrants and refugees seeking a better life or relief from disaster, drug smugglers, weapons dealers, and the idle and not-so-idle rich. This is the dramatic story of how that one ship and the lives of those on board intersected during a tumultuous period of world history, culminating in her sinking off Singapore in the Second World War.

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