40,000-Ton C: P-R: Liner of 265
Knots: Empress of Britain immense new liner, which will mark the: biggest "advance in travel fon the Canadian' route: since the! days when the first steamer sailed to the Dominion from England, will be launched by the Canadian Pace next year.
'The Empress of Britain, as' the new ship will be called, will rank amongst the giants of the sea. She will be-of 40,000 tons, is being built for the useful speed of 263 knots, and is costing $3,000,000.
How great an advance this shi} will.be on anything' else on the Canadian route may be gathered by' the fact that she is 15,000. tons bigger than the present biggest ship going up the St, Lawrence river—the C.P.R; Empress of Scotland.
Her speed, which in all. probability" will' be' improved upon actual working, will easily wir the Blue Riband of the Canadian route. She will bring the Great Dominion nearer than it has over been by doing the Southampton-Quebec' trip In. five days or less. This will out the present journey time by no less than a day anda half, the fastest Canadian boats now taking six to seven days for the voyage.
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