New 14 March 2006
TEESSHIPS
40+ YEARS OF BAD ROAD!
with acknowledgement to Duane Eddy's 1959 hit "Forty Miles of Bad Road"

EMPRESS OF CANADA

Five views, all taken at Liverpool, 6 September 1965

As I had seen this ship nearing completion during my first visit to the Tyne in February 1961 it was probably with some degree of excitement I saw her again on this occasion. 

In dock. Would this be Gladstone Dock, where her predecessor met her fate in 1953?
See: http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/empcanada.html

Later in the day, while still traipsing round the extensive Liverpool dock system (on foot, I might add!) she was to be seen on the move:

And, finally, as I was on board the ferry to New Brighton to my B&B accommodation, there she was at the Landing Stage:

EMPRESS OF CANADA (5103936) Canadian Pacific Railway Co., London, 27284gt, completed by Vickers-Armstrongs (S.Bs.) Ltd., Newcastle, 3-1961. 1972 MARDI GRAS (Panama), 1993 STAR OF TEXAS, 1994 LUCKY STAR, 199? APOLLON, 1999 APOLLO, 2003 broken up.