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water transport

CP Ships

Dissolved 2005

Headquarters: London
Founded: 1880
Employees: —

Photo: Cecil King (Cecil George Charles King, 1881-1942) · Public domain · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

28,574

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What CP Ships is

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Canadian Pacific Steamship Company 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 Canadian Pacific ships from Europe to Canada. In 1914 the sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress of Ireland just before World War I became the 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.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Canada
Headquarters: London
Formed in: —
Founded: 1880
Dissolved: 2005
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 51.5072, -0.1275

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: —
Average vessel age: 60.3 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1957
Newest vessel on record: 1979
Largest vessel by tonnage: 28,574
Average tonnage: 28,574
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to CP Ships. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Container ship1

Cruise ship1

Unclassified1

By shipbuilder

Vickers2

Namura Shipbuilding1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	3
2018	—	3
2019	—	3
2020	—	3
2021	—	3
2022	—	3
2023	—	3
2024	—	3
2025	—	3
2026	—	3

Vessel records

Ships on record · Cruise ship

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
RMS Empress of Canada	5103936	Cruise ship	—	1961	28,574	—	198.1 m	Vickers

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How CP Ships compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 3 vessels attributed to it here, CP Ships is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Canada is the country of registration for 23 commercial operators in this directory, among which CP Ships ranks 5th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 92 vessels here. See every operator registered in Canada.

Founded in 1880, CP Ships is 146 years old. This directory holds 41 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q458001, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Canadian Pacific Steamship Company on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.