10.30 a.m. Left St. Enoch Station by Canadian Pacific special train for GREENOCK...
Princes Pier - 1931
...where we were "piped" on board the tender and then to s.s. "EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND".
The Empress of Scotland was originally the Empress of Japan built for Canadian Pacific's Vancouver-Yokohama service. It was delivered in 1930 but became a troop transport during WW2 (with a name change to Empress of Scotland in 1942). She worked the North Atlantic after the war and was sold to the Hamburg-Atlantic Line in 1958 to be rebuilt as the Hanseatic. After a serious engine room fire in 1966 in New York she was towed back to Germany then scrapped.
Tuesday, 14 July, 1953
s.s. "EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND" arrived at MONTREAL.
On the way home I purchased a leather Empress of Scotland scrapbook and filled it with memories.
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