SS Duchess of Richmond was an ocean liner built in 1928 for Canadian Pacific Steamships by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland. In 1947 she was renamed SS Empress of Canada.
Duchess of Richmond
Duchess of Richmond was one of the several Canadian Pacific liners which were known as the "Drunken Duchesses" for their "lively performance in heavy seas."[2] She was built as a sister ship to SS Duchess of York, SS Duchess of Bedford and SS Duchess of Atholl.
Maiden voyage
She sailed from Liverpool at midnight on Saturday, 26th January 1929, with a full complement of passengers on a "shake-down cruise" to Gibraltar, Monte Carlo, Algiers, Tangier, Las Palmas, Sierra Leone, Freetown, to Dakar, and then back via Tenerife, Casablanca, Madeira, Cadiz and Lisbon to Liverpool early on Friday 8th March.[3]