ALBATROS WW11 GB TROOP SHIP 'HMTS EMPRESS OF RUSSIA' 1/1250 MODEL SHIP

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METAL MODEL OF BRITISH WW11 TROOP SHIP 'HMTS EMPRESS OF RUSSIA' BUILT BY FAIRFIELDS SB, GOVAN 1912, 16 810 TON, 19 KNOTS, 570 FEET, UP T0 1000 TROOPS. The RMS Empress of Russia was an ocean liner built in 1912-1913 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific steamships (CP). This ship regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between Canada and the Far East. The Empress was again commissioned by the British Admiralty as a troop transport. Initially, she carried Australian and New Zealand Air Force recruits to Canada for flight school training. In March 1941, she was refitted at dockyards on the River Clyde in Scotland.The Captain of the Empress in 1941-42 would only realize many years later that he had had a VIP aboard—a young Midshipman Philip Mountbatten (later to become Duke of Edinburgh ) is remembered for having helped stoke the boilers in 1941.The Empress was involved in the North Africa landings in 1943. In October 1943, she made a special trip to Gothenburg to exchange prisoners of war. This was followed by seven trips to Reykjavík for the RAF.In early 1944, she was used as an accommodation ship at Rosyth for Russian crews who were to take over a number of British warships. In June, she was moved to Spithead where she was used as a depot ship for tugs after the read more

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