On her second voyage, "Empress of Britain" made the west-bound trip from Moville, Ireland, to Rimouski, Canada, in five days, 21 hours, 17 minutes – a new record, which was a credit to her Captain, James Anderson Murray, and to her shipbuilders. Both "Empress of Britain" and her sister ship, "Empress of Ireland" were the fastest ships making the transatlantic run to Canadian ports at the time. In 1914, "Empress of Ireland" sank in the Saint Lawrence River with great loss of life.