Name: Empress of America Owner: Canadian Pacific Steamship Company Port of registry: Canada Builder: Naval Construction & Armaments Co, Barrow-in-Furness Launched: 29 March 1890 Maiden voyage: 2 April 1891 Out of service: 1915 Fate: Bought by the Royal Navy and Was turned into Seaplane tender Called the HMS Royal Ace ---Bio--- RMS Empress of America, also known as the "US Canadian", was an ocean liner built in 1890–1891 by Naval Construction & Armaments Co, Barrow-in-Furness, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP). This ship regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between the west coast of Canada and the Far East until 1915 In 1891, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the British government reached agreement on a contract for subsidized mail service between Britain and Hong Kong via Canada; and the route began to be serviced by four specially designed ocean liners. Each of these four vessels was given an Imperial name. Empress of America and her three running mates – RMS Empress of China, the RMS Empress of India and the RMS Empress of Japan – created a flexible foundation for the CPR trans-Pacific fleet which would ply this route for the next half century. in May 2 1915, The Empress of America Was Acquired by the Royal Navy was Turned a Seaplane carrier and Named the Royal Ace.
