Lionel Dale
Douglas
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Lionel Douglas, sitting, left on Empress of Asia, 1931
Wayne Dutcher, Canada - contributes:
My wife's grandfather
(Captain L.D. [Lionel Dale] Douglas), Chief Officer on Canadian
Pacific's Empress of Asia was assigned war duty to serve as Lieut.,
RNR, on HMS Lama in 1915 then on patrol in the Red Sea. The ship as
I understand it was to control smuggling of contraband goods in the
area. One of the moments where the ship played a minor but memorable
role (at least for the ship's officers and crew anyway) was in
transporting T.E. Lawrence and the military party he was with from
Suez to Jeddah and then Rabegh on an information finding foray
inland to an area bordering Turkish held territory. There is minor
coverage of the event in the opening lines of Chapter VIII in
Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", where the ship and some
details are mentioned. Douglas went on after the war to continue his
career with Canadian Pacific eventually taking command of the
Empresses of Canada, Asia and Japan II on the trans-Pacific service
out of Vancouver.
...Lionel Douglas, who in 1934 was the Captain of the "Empress of
Japan"... was the son of
Campbell Mellis Douglas.
He was with his cousin James and
brother George when they
discovered the extent of huge copper deposits within the Arctic
Circle.
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted
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