High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RMS Empress of Australia was an ocean liner built in 1913-1919 by Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) for the Hamburg America Line. She was refitted for Canadian Pacific Steamships; and the ship -- the third of three CP vessels to be named Empress of China -- was renamed yet again in 1922 as the Empress of Australia..