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} in ). | Ship yard number = | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = Thursday, 4 March 1897 | Ship completed = | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = | Ship in service = 1897 | Ship out of service = | Ship identification = *Official Number 95759 *Code Letters P V R M * *〔Ships of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (Fred Henry) p.64〕 | Ship fate = Ran ashore off Bembridge whilst on trooping duties in dense fog. Subsequently abandoned. | Ship status = Wrecked LAT:50°40'N LON:001°05'W. | Ship notes = }} |} SS (RMS) ''Empress Queen'' was a steel paddle steamer, which was the last of its type ordered by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=PS Empress Queen )〕 She was chartered by the Admiralty in 1915 and used for trooping duties until she ran aground off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England, and was subsequently abandoned. ==Construction and dimensions== ''Empress Queen'' was built by Fiarfields at Govan in 1897 at a cost of £130,000; (£}} in ) and launched on Thursday, March 4, 1897. Her boilers and engines also came from her builder. ''Empress Queen'' was the largest and fastest paddle-driven cross-channel steamer ever to be built. She displaced a tonnage of ; length 360'1"; beam 42'3" depth 17'. The engine design was very advanced for its day. She had a boiler steam pressure of , and her two diagonal three-crank compound type engines developed 10,000 i.h.p. One high pressure cylinder was 68" in diameter and was placed centrally with the two low pressure cylinders of 92" diameter on either side. The stroke was 84" and the usual running speed was 44 r.p.m. This produced to give ''Empress Queen'' a service speed of . Her engines and paddle wheels were claimed to be the heaviest ever placed in a paddle steamer, with one paddle shaft wheel alone weighing 70 tons. Sixteen firemen worked at her 32 furnaces. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Empress Queen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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