BREAKING-UP A FAMOUS VESSEL.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 14

BREAKING-UP A FAMOUS VESSEL.

The famous C:P.R, Pacific-liner EmPrf s'o^lndia, which, after-being sold out of her owners' fleet, Was renamed Lojalty, is now being broken up at Bombay.^At one time she ;was one of the finest -vessels on the Pacific her sistei-ships the. Empress of: Japan and Empress of China, being her. only rivals. When the war broke out she' disappeared irom the transpacific route and; never rehUml f" i, Early hl the °°a6iit she w »s bought by an Indian rajah, ■ fitted as a hospital ship,,and given to-the British Government. 'After: the war. was over she was bought by ; the Scindia Steam JSa.viga.tion Company for 26' lakhs of rupees, but she was a dead loss to the purchasers, and was never ;:fun except --MS : !Men;4yang>-:in;.Bo,nib'a^-.Harbour

beitain;s , ships. Evidence, ofltlieTpassing of the sailer may be gained .fr.om the. fact that Great Britain .has':-pnly-;3.66,000 tons net of this clasa.of...carrier:.-,/Nowadays, the arnyal. of" a ,>ig:,Bailing'ship is'full of in.terest, as was the-:steamer, some' fifty ye^.ago. Afewyof'these sailers wo still afloat, and their movements are iuteresting4o the "ancient mariner" Tho Mount Stewart, which is due at Sydney shortly With a cargo of salt from Liverpool. ls one of the few remaining fullngged ships afloat. 'She is a painted port cupper, and has been for years a regular visitor to these shores. According to information -received' by Captain O. Green, Marine Surveyor of Sydney. Captain M'Colm, who is particularly .well known in Sydney, is, still in command of the Mount- Stewart. There are ni-n^^f ts-,abpard>.lhcluduig the Earl ofvSuflolk;-, '".X.. ".;-■*