was to be made in the summer of that year. There were no follow-ups, and the story contained errors. In 1985, a potential salvager received a letter from the Department of Transport Shipping Policy Unit saying the gold on board had been recovered. In 1995, salvagers found the Empress of Britain upside-down in of water. Using saturation diving, they found that the fire had destroyed most of the decks, leaving a largely empty shell rising from the sea floor. The bullion room, however, was still intact. Inside was a skeleton but no gold. It is suspected the gold was unloaded when the Empress of Britain was on fire and its passengers evacuated. The body inside the bullion room may have been that of someone involved in salvage. In popular culture In 1990, Robert Seamer wrote The Floating Inferno: The Story of the Loss of the Empress of Britain. He was on the ship when she was torpedoed and sunk. The 1989 novel The White Empress by Lyn Andrews is set on board Empress of Britain. The 2018 novel Empress by Brian McPhee was inspired by the ship, and features a fictionalised account of the skeleton in the bullion room. The 1993 novel 'Closed Circle' by Robert Goddard partly takes place on board 'Empress of Britain'. See also Treasure hunting (marine) CP Ships References Further reading Choco, Mark H, and Jones, David L. (1988). Canadian Pacific Posters, 1883-1963. Montreal: Meridian Press. Coleman, Terry. (1977). The Liners: A History of the North Atlantic Crossing. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.] ; Harvey, Clive. (2004). RMS Empress Of Britain: Britain's Finest Liner. Stroud (England): Tempus Publishing. ; OCLC 56462669 McAuley, Rob and Miller, William. (1997). The Liners: A Voyage of Discovery. Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International Publishers & Wholesalers. ; OCLC 38144342 Miller, William H. (1985). The Fabulous Interiors of the Great Ocean Liners in Historic Photographs.. New York: Dover Publications. ; OCLC 10697284 __. (1981). The Great Luxury Liners, 1927–1954: a Photographic Record. New York: Dover Publications. ; Mitchell, WH and Sawyer, LA. (1967) Cruising Ships New York: Doubleday Musk, George. (1981). Canadian Pacific: The Story of the Famous Shipping Line. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. Pickford, Nigel. (1999). Lost Treasure Ships of the Twentieth Century, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic. ; OCLC 40964695 Seamer, Robert. (1990). The Floating Inferno: The Story of the Loss of the Empress of Britain. Wellingborough: Stephens. ; OCLC