RMS Duchess of Atholl
RMS Duchess of Atholl was a ocean liner of Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd that sailed between Liverpool and Canada. William Beardmore and Company built her in Dalmuir, Dumbartonshire in 1928. For a month in 1928, Duchess of Atholl held the record for an eastbound crossing from Canada to Liverpool, at 6 days, 13 hours.
In 1940, Duchess of Atholl left Liverpool on 19 July 1940, bound for Quebec and Montreal with passengers including evacuated children.
The German Type IX submarine sank her in the South Atlantic on 10 October 1942, killing four of the liner's crew.
The 1928 film Birth Of A Liner features the construction of the ship..
