Oceans of Fate (eBook)

Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia

Dan Black (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
456 Seiten
Dundurn Press (Verlag)
978-1-4597-5253-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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 multimillion-dollar consignments of silk. As a luxurious passenger liner, she was a Greyhound of the Pacific, braving epic storms and smashing transpacific speed records. From stokehold to bridge, steerage to first-class staterooms, she steamed with a kaleidoscope of lives, including courageous and recalcitrant crew, immigrants and refugees seeking a better life or relief from disaster, drug smugglers, weapons dealers, and the idle and not-so-idle rich.This is the dramatic story of how that one ship and the lives of those on board intersected during a tumultuous period of world history, culminating in her sinking off Singapore in the Second World War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2025
• Vorwort: James P. Delgado
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Schlagworte: armed merchant cruiser • Australian sloop Yarra • boat • Canadian History • Canadian passenger ships • coal • drug smuggling • Empress of Asia • First World War • German cruiser Emden • Great Depression • great kanto earthquake • Hong Kong • Immigration • Japanese dive bombers • Maritime • Maritime collisions • Merchant Sailors • Naval History • Ocean travel • Opium • Pacific Ocean • pacific storms • port of Vancouver • quarantine • Roaring Twenties • Second World War • Shanghai • Ship • Silk shipments • Singapore • stowaways • Troopship • War in the Pacific
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-5253-8 / 1459752538
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-5253-5 / 9781459752535