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Post by WettCoast on Feb 14, 2017 20:01:37 GMT -8
Back in the day (1973) my brother, mrdot , owned a twin lens reflex medium format film camera. It had a fixed 'normal' lens and produced square 6x6 cm negatives. The quality of scans from these negatives is really quite nice. At any rate, here is one b&w image that David produced with that camera of the 1948 Princess twins in Victoria Harbour. This was after the CPR had introduced their 'multi-mark' (pac-man) logo, but before the P Marguerite was sold off to the BC government ...  CPR's Princesses Marguerite & Patricia during their winter lay-up in Victoria Harbour - 1973. This location is where the Coho docks today.
© Mr DOT by mrdot., on FlickrThis image is actually one of three that I spent some time trying to stitch together. Had it worked the image shown here would have included the aft half of the Marguerite. But alas, it would not work. The image shown here is from the final negative in the series. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 25, 2017 6:58:22 GMT -8
Princess Sophia sunk, 99 years ago today. A sad event. story HERE |
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Post by chemainiac on Nov 16, 2017 20:58:12 GMT -8
I cant find mention of the CPR truck and rail ferry CARRIER PRINCESS. I have come by one of the two lifeboats off her that I am converting to a displacement power cruiser with a 2cyl Yanmar for power. Does anyone know anything about the second lifeboat?
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 16, 2017 21:08:52 GMT -8
I cant find mention of the CPR truck and rail ferry CARRIER PRINCESS. I have come by one of the two lifeboats off her that I am converting to a displacement power cruiser with a 2cyl Yanmar for power. Does anyone know anything about the second lifeboat? Welcome. We have mention of, and photos, of Carrier Princess throughout this here thread: HERE- that thread has all (or most) of the current and past truck/rail ferries operated by Seaspan, with some formerly operated by CP and others by FM Yorke & Sons. For the lifeboat question, I don't have the answer. Sorry. |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 18, 2018 21:39:48 GMT -8
One week from today (25 October 2018) will mark the 100th anniversary of the loss of the Princess Sophia in Alaskan waters near Juneau. Every soul on board was lost in the tragic sinking; the worst maritime disaster ever in the history of the North American Pacific coast.
I wonder if anything will be made of this sombre anniversary by the media in this part of the world.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 18, 2018 21:54:39 GMT -8
One week from today (25 October 2018) will mark the 100th anniversary of the loss of the Princess Sophia in Alaskan waters near Juneau. Every soul on board was lost in the tragic sinking; the worst maritime disaster ever in the history of the North American Pacific coast. I wonder if anything will be made of this sombre anniversary by the media in this part of the world. Times Colonist had a feature story on her sinking, in last Saturday's paper. I will remember them. |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 18, 2018 22:06:28 GMT -8
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Post by Neil on Oct 18, 2018 22:24:38 GMT -8
I read the article in the TC... it jogged my memory about the Titanic exhibit. I have the 1998 book by Betty O'Keefe and Ian McDonald on the Sophia. Like so many things about Titanic that made one think "if only", it always struck me that so many people on the Sophia died, so close to shore. |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 18, 2018 22:57:42 GMT -8
I read the article in the TC... it jogged my memory about the Titanic exhibit. I have the 1998 book by Betty O'Keefe and Ian McDonald on the Sophia. Like so many things about Titanic that made one think "if only", it always struck me that so many people on the Sophia died, so close to shore. And it was your Titanic post earlier this evening that jogged my memory about this west coast tragedy ... |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 19, 2018 16:58:20 GMT -8
A P. Sophia article worth reading ...
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 25, 2018 20:32:55 GMT -8
So today I am observing a few minutes of silence in remembrance of all those souls lost in the Sophia sinking 100 years ago today. + + +See Gordon Friesen's P Sophia here |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 27, 2018 8:06:06 GMT -8
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Post by Starsteward on Oct 27, 2018 8:39:51 GMT -8
Thanks for posting that piece Jim. The CBC did a great job putting that all together. It is too bad the tragedy didn't get more coverage but with the end of the war etc., sometimes events that occur just assume different historical priorities. Very eerie reading that chaps last will and testament. The tragedy could be entitled: 'So near, yet so far"....sadly. |
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Post by Neil on Dec 30, 2018 22:14:13 GMT -8
![]() I was thinking recently about how I have a fair bit of family connection to our islands. My great grandparents on my mother's side homesteaded on Orcas Island in 1885, with two hundred acres, and the family was there until about 1946. My grandparents moved to Mayne Island about 1912, and my grandfather also logged on Galiano and Texada. When he enlisted in the Canadian armed forces in 1916, his home was given as 'Main, BC'. My brother built two homes on Bowen and lived there for twenty five years, and my mother also bought a property there, but held it only briefly. My late sister also lived in one of the little Union Steamships cottages in the late '60s, on the side of the main road where Crippen Park now is; all those dwellings are long gone. As well, I've had my Hornby place since 1983. Been going through old photos recently, and came upon this one, of my grandfather Daniel Boone Kepler's fishing boat, the Annispat. Annis Edna was his wife, Pat was from my mother's name, Fern Patricia. His other daughter, my aunt, was not commemorated in the boat's name, and therein lies some family history, not of any interest here. It's in the vicinity of Campbell River, probably in the 1930s, and I don't know if anyone can identify the steamer in the background. I believe I recounted here some time ago how my mother had told me of her childhood there, looking out from her bedroom at the Cape Mudge lighthouse, and how I was able to take her over there for the first time, a few years before she died. I hadn't told her where we were going, and it loomed up right in front of us, at the end of the road. A good memory.  Attachments:
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Post by dave2 on Mar 12, 2022 12:02:56 GMT -8
February 11 1959. Winter service to be abandoned?  |
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Post by Neil on Nov 28, 2022 18:27:00 GMT -8
The December Western Mariner reports that in October, the 322' Trailer Princess, (1944 Bethlehem Steel), which sunk back in February of this year in Duncan Bay near Campbell River, was raised by the Freshwater Group's heavy lift submersible, and taken to the Amix facility, again near Campbell River, for dismantling.
She had been used as a platform for helicopter support, and, I believe, for accommodation. In her time, she was a pretty modern concept, as a simple open decked carrier of trucks and rail cars, between Vancouver and Nanaimo. After raising, there had to be removal of about 90,000 litres of fuel, which is interesting in a non-powered vessel.
In any event, another long time fixture on our coast is gone. Notable that her hull remained serviceable so long after her superstructure was removed... I wouldn't be surprised if CP stopped using her around 1980.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 28, 2022 19:09:16 GMT -8
The December Western Mariner reports that in October, the 322' Trailer Princess, (1944 Bethlehem Steel), which sunk back in February of this year in Duncan Bay near Campbell River, was raised by the Freshwater Group's heavy lift submersible, and taken to the Amix facility, again near Campbell River, for dismantling. Thanks for this update. I remember reading books on BC coastal shipping history and seeing photos of Trailer Princess, and then realizing that ships like Carrier Princess weren't quite a new idea. The simplicity of Trailer Princess always impressed me. |
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