This article is about the CP ships that provided international service. For CP ships that operated on the Great Lakes, see Canadian Pacific Railway Upper Lake Service.
CP Ships
Three steamships docked together: Empress of France, Empress of India and Empress of Britain
Formerly
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Industry
Shipping
Founded
1887 (1887) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Founder
William Cornelius Van Horne
Defunct
2005
Fate
Merged with TUI AG
Headquarters
City Place Gatwick,
London
,
UK
Area served
Global
Key people
Ronald Niel Stuart, Samuel Robinson, John Wallace Thomas
Footnotes / references House flag of CP Ships
CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships from Europe to Canada. In 1914 the sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress of Ireland just before World War I became largest maritime disaster in Canadian history. The company provided Canadian Merchant Navy vessels in World Wars I and II. Twelve vessels were lost due to enemy action in World War II, including the RMS Empress of Britain, which was the largest ship ever sunk by a German U-boat.
The company moved to a model of container shipping from passenger, freight and mail service in the 1960s due to competitive pressure from the airline industry. The company was a part of the Canadian Pacific Ltd. conglomerate. It was spun out as a separate company in 2001. In 2005, it was purchased by TUI AG and is now part of the company's Hapag-Lloyd division.
The Atlantic and Pacific passenger liners of Canadian Pacific were always British-flagged and largely British-manned and were not part of the Canadian Merchant Marine, ownership being with the British-registered Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd. subsidiary.
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