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Contents 1 Not the Empress of Ireland's sister 2 Third funnel 3 Plausibly useful links 4 Redundant useful links

[edit] Not the Empress of Ireland's sister

This Empress of Britain is not the sister ship of the Empress of Ireland. There was another Empress of Britain that was launched in 1906. That ship was the Empress of Ireland's sister. Compared to the Empress of Britain in this article the Empress of Ireland had 2 funnels instead of 3, was about 1/3 as big and was launched 25 years earlier.

[edit] Third funnel

Is it true that the EofB's third funnel was like Titanic's fourth funnel - not a smoke-producing funnel? 04:06, 10 July 2006 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.117.4.237 (talk • contribs) .

I don't know for sure, but it's quite possible. A lot of ships were built like that, with a funnel as a dummy. Queen Mary was like that, with the third funnel being a dummy, and America had the first (of two) funnels as a dummy. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, as you can see in the side elevation in the article, the third funnel does not contain boiler trunks. The Queen Mary's third funnel was partly functional though. John.Conway 10:05, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plausibly useful links

The process of changing the name of this article revealed a number of links. It is unclear whether these links should or should not be incorporated in the article's "See also" section. They are posted here for evaluation and review by other editors. --Tenmei (talk) 19:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The following pages link to RMS Empress of Britain (1930) ...

• List of shipwrecks
• Ocean liner
• List of ocean liners
• Unterseeboot 32 (1937)
• CP Ships
• Edward Wentworth Beatty
• SS Empress of Britain (1931)
• List of shipwrecks in 1940
• RMS Empress of Britain (1931)
• Ronald Niel Stuart
• Monarchy in Nova Scotia
• Portal:Nautical/June history
• Bernhard Jope
• Empress of Britain II
• Empress of Britain 2
• Empress of Britain

[edit] Redundant useful links

Changing name from RMS Empress of Britain (1930) to RMS Empress of Britain (1931) because the disambiguation date was wrong -- should have been 1931, date of maiden voyage rather than launch date .... --Tenmei (talk) 20:30, 8 May 2008 (UTC)