The Princess fleet is an eponym for the coastal vessels of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the first half of the 20th century.[1] The names of these small ocean liners began with the title "Princess."
The ships of the British Columbia Coast Steamships came to be called "pocket liners" because they offered amenities like a great ocean liner, but on a smaller scale.[2] The CPR princesses were a coastal counterpart to CPR's "Empress" fleet of passenger liners which sailed on trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic routes.[3]
James William Troup is credited with conceiving and building the Princess fleet. In 1913, 10 of the 12 Princess ships in the coastal fleet had been built to the orders of Capt. Troup.[4]
Former ferries of CP Steamships that were absorbed by Washington Marine Group (WMG) in 1998. Two years before WMG had gained full control of Seaspan.
^Hacking, Norman R. (1995). Prince Ships of Northern B.C.: Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian National Railways, p. 16, p. 16, at Google Books; excerpt; "... creating the CPR's Princess fleet, of which the two largest vessels were the Princess Victoria of 1903 and Princess Charlotte of 1908. See also Turner, Robert D. (1987). West of the Great Divide : an Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia, 1880-1986, p. 65.
^Steamship Historical Society of America. (1940). Steamboat Bill (US), Vol. 54, p. 206.
^Southall, A.E. (1907). Imperial year book for Dominion of Canada, p. 202, p. 202, at Google Books; excerpt, "... in 1891, the far-famed "Empress" fleet was inaugurated."
^Musk, George. (1981). Canadian Pacific: The Story of the Famous Shipping Line, p. 81.
^Miramar Ship Index, SS Princess May, ID# 1109860
^Miramar, SS Princess Patricia I, ID# 1115685
^Miramar, SS Princess Beatrice, ID# 1116405
^Miramar, SS Princess Victoria, ID# 1115953
^Miramar, SS Princess Ena, ID#1122387
^Miramar, SS Princess Royal, ID#1121988
^Miramar, SS Princess Charlotte, ID# 5523054
^Miramar, SS Princess Adelaide, ID# 5501730
^Miramar, SS Princess Mary, ID# 1126950
^Miramar, SS Princess Alice, ID#5500364
^Miramar, SS Princess Sophia, ID#130620
^Miramar, SS Princess Maquinna, ID# 1133769
^Miramar, SS Island Princess, ID# 2211501
^Miramar, SS Princess Margaret, ID# 5603800
^Miramar, SS Princess Irene, ID# 6104902
^ a b c d e f g hFournier, Leslie Thomas. (1981). Railway Nationalization in Canada: the Problem of the Canadian National Railways, p. 203., p. 203, at Google Books
^Miramar, SS Princess Louise, ID# 1150555
^Miramar, MV Motor Princess, ID# 5412959
^Miramar, SS Princess Kathleen, ID#1150908
^Miramar, SS Princess Marguerite I, ID# 1150910
^Miramar, SS Princess Elaine, ID# 1154739
^Miramar, SS Princess Norah, ID# 5505983
^Miramar, SS Princess Elizabeth, ID# 5272866
^Miramar, SS Princess Helene, ID#5411515
^Ships List, Princess Joan Archived 2009-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
^Miramar, SS Princess Joan, ID# 5149124
^Miramar, SS Trailer Princess, ID# 6118916
^Miramar, SS Princess of Alberni, ID# 6121085
^Miramar, SS Yukon Princess, ID# 1176046
^Miramar, SS Princess Marguerite II, ID# 5284900
^Miramar, TEV Princess Patricia II, ID# 5284924
^Miramar, SS Princess of Nanaimo, ID#5408063.
^Miramar, MV Princess of Vancouver, ID#5284998
^Miramar, MV Princess of Acadia, ID#7039567
References
Fournier, Leslie Thomas. (1935). Railway Nationalization in Canada: the Problem of the Canadian National Railways. Toronto: Macmillan. OCLC 424018532
Hacking, Norman R. (1995). Prince Ships of Northern B.C.: Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian National Railways. Surrey, British Columbia: Heritage House. ISBN 9781895811285; OCLC 31778600
__________ and W. Kaye Lamb. (1974). The Princess Story: a century and a half of West Coast shipping. Vancouver : Mitchell Press. OCLC 2973754
Morley, Alan. (1961). Vancouver; from Milltown to Metropolis. Vancouver: Mitchell. http://www.worldcat.org/title/vancouver-from-milltown-to-metropolis/oclc/70456349 OCLC 70456349]
Musk, George. (1981). Canadian Pacific: The Story of the Famous Shipping Line. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada. ISBN 978-0-03-920291-0; OCLC 7540915
Turner, Robert D. (1974). The Pacific Princesses: an illustrated history of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess fleet on the Northwest Coast. Winlaw, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press. OCLC 254451187
__________. (1987). West of the Great Divide : an Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia, 1880-1986. Victoria, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press. ISBN 9780919203518; OCLC 16019694