Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia

by Dan Black

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 thirty years. Built for peacetime travel, she saw wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser and troopship before Japanese dive bombers destroyed her off Singapore in 1942.

Through the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression, she brought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459752511
• ISBN13: 9781459752511
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"