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

By Dan Black, James P. Delgado Ph.D., FRGS, FRCGS (Foreword by)
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By Dan Black, James P. Delgado Ph.D., FRGS, FRCGS (Foreword by)
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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 multimi...

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