Notable Passengers

The EMPRESS OF ASIA, commanded by L. D. Douglas, began a Pacific crossing upon sailing from Vancouver on February 27^th, 1932.

The voyage marked an unusually quick turn around, the ship having only arrived in British Columbia on the 22^nd of February. The quick turn around was necessary to achieve schedules disrupted through the dry-docking of the Canadian Pacific ships at Hong Kong for annual overhaul.

The ship was held at Victoria until February 28^th to allow passengers who had missed the departure at Vancouver to take the ferry to Victoria and board there. The missed connection was the result of slides along the mountainous sections of the transcontinental rail line that caused a delay in the arrival at Vancouver of the train from eastern Canada.

In the Orient, Captain Douglas would relinquish command of the EMPRESS OF ASIA to Captain A. V. R. Lovegrove. Captain Douglas would become Master of the EMPRESS OF JAPAN.

Notable passengers embarking aboard EMPRESS OF ASIA on February 27^th, 1932 at Vancouver and Victoria.

J. A. D. McCurdy	President of the Curtis Reid Aircraft Company.
Louis Beale	Commercial Attache to the British Legation at Peiping.
B. Powell	Of Movietone and Metrophone News, en route to Shanghai for the Hearst Corporation.
Mary Bush Williams	Of the International News Service en route to Shanghai to join celebrated war correspondent Floyd Gibbons.
Luang Chara	Secretary of the Siamese Legation, Washington.
H. B. R. Clarke	Managing Director of British Britannic Textiles Limited, London.
Professor G. H. Blakeslee	Of the United States Government Service.
Margaret Green	Embarked at Victoria en route to China to accept a position in nursing at a hospital.

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