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Post by WettCoast on Jun 16, 2006 21:38:18 GMT -8
Another view of the Princess Patricia taken the same day in 1980. This one is at Fairview docks just south of the Prince Rupert ferry terminals.  |
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Post by pscurr on May 4, 2009 8:56:15 GMT -8
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Post by Neil on Oct 23, 2009 9:38:25 GMT -8
There is a Princess Patricia thread, but it's locked in the vault, so I'll put this one here. Vancouver, undated.  |
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Post by Nick on Oct 23, 2009 10:04:07 GMT -8
Oooooh, beautiful shot. I'm going to guess that this was taken during her Alaska cruise days, or shortly after before she was sold.
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 23, 2009 10:11:18 GMT -8
Great shot!
But why are the bridge windows all covered up with brown paper?
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Post by Mill Bay on Oct 23, 2009 10:12:04 GMT -8
Oooooh, beautiful shot. I'm going to guess that this was taken during her Alaska cruise days, or shortly after before she was sold. It's a really great view, but somehow, she doesn't look quite right with a completely white hull... it actually makes her look old and brittle for some reason. |
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Post by Mirrlees on Oct 23, 2009 22:14:13 GMT -8
Great shot! But why are the bridge windows all covered up with brown paper? This was done to protect the teak pannelling from fading in the sun while laid-up over the winter. I was on her sister Princess Marguerite's bridge it was lovely with all that teak and gleaming brass telegraphs. |
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Post by bcferryfan87 on Oct 24, 2009 18:22:12 GMT -8
There is a Princess Patricia thread, but it's locked in the vault, so I'll put this one here. Vancouver, undated. What does that mean ..."it's (thread) locked in the vault"....?; anyways, if you look at the port bow side by wheelhouse/bridge, it says something like "CP 100 years", so whenever that was would be a good guess it was the same time the pic was taken. I seem to recall the Pat sat there for sometime At the dock (which now houses phase 2 - aka the phase just opened - of the Trade and Convention Centre in Vancouver. It was in early 86 that it left there, to be rented out to someone who ran it as a floating hotel for extra accomodation for expo 86 - in new west; of course 3 years later after sitting at Esquimalt for some time, it was auctioned off, and sold off to hit the scrap yard later in 89 - so sad! Thanks for posting that pic. On that topic, I am going to finally try and post an audio file I have of the Maggies whistle in Vic harbour. The simplest thing shouldn't take so long to do, but it is just getting the audio cord out, putting it with the old technology cassette player and moving it onto a wav file or whatever. Soon it will happen, soon  . Kind of the same as the tapes on video I have of the Maggies last run (from KIRO, CHEK in 89). As mentioned before, they are stored away, so haven't been able to locate, and hope they are in good condition. Maybe by typing this, it will push me to dig for them harder. |
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Post by FNS on Nov 17, 2011 8:57:27 GMT -8
I didn't see a thread for her...I know there's a tendency to lump the Maggie and the Patricia together, but I think the Pat deserves her own thread. Two shots to start, both vintage and bearing the Canadian Pacific Stamp on the back. This first one is particularly good: And later in her career when she went to cruising...  More to come... This photo is actually an edit. An artist masked out the black Main Deck and hull above the bottom paint and "painted" this section white as a preview of what the PATRICIA would look like when she's virtually all white above the bottom paint. Notice the drawing of the anchor. Also, notice the black paint still present on the chock aft of the galley (three windows) and ahead of the officers dining rooms. The windows of the Boat Deck ballroom and the Promenade Deck cafeteria would be replaced by standard windows and these areas would become staterooms. Also, an upper aft observatory would be added. The Main Deck would get staterooms for passengers at one side and engine crew staterooms on the other side, replacing those on the Boat Deck that would become public staterooms. All done during her conversion to a cruise liner. Later, a swimming pool was added at her stern for her Mexican service in the 1960s (later removed). This edited photo still shows her as a ferry. I have this photo in one of my books. |
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Nov 26, 2011 22:57:37 GMT -8
Footage of the Princess Patricia kindly sent to us by the same individual who recently uploaded footage of the Queen of the North. *Note: Video does not contain sound. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 27, 2011 13:13:57 GMT -8
Footage of the Princess Patricia kindly sent to us by the same individual who recently uploaded footage of the Queen of the North. *Note: Video does not contain sound.I recognized Bella Bella waterfront, Dryad Point Lighthouse, Cone Island, and the Skagway railroad. I also saw the CN Prince George ship, and the BCF Queen of Prince Rupert. |
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Post by FNS on Dec 5, 2011 16:47:07 GMT -8
From a three ring binder with photos on a desk in the Victoria Maritime Museum, we see this view of the PRINCESS PATRICIA being converted into a cruise ship as her ferry days would be competed:  This shows the newly installed aft observatory as well as much other work being done. The black paint on the Main Deck would be replaced with white.  Lighter image. |
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Post by mrdot on Dec 5, 2011 18:12:05 GMT -8
:)the conversion shot of Princess Patrica brings to mind interesting cruise ship history on this coast, as this humble beginings of CPR into the cruise/charter buisness was the start of Princess cruises, now one of the giants of the cruise industry! many do not know that this vessel figured in the beginnings! mrdot. |
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Post by WettCoast on Dec 5, 2011 20:17:58 GMT -8
I didn't see a thread for her...I know there's a tendency to lump the Maggie and the Patricia together, but I think the Pat deserves her own thread. Two shots to start, both vintage and bearing the Canadian Pacific Stamp on the back. This first one is particularly good:  And later in her career when she went to cruising... That first photo is also displayed on page 182 of Robert Turner's The Pacific Princesses. This picture was shot by none other than the late Nicholas Morant, the famed CPR corporate photographer, well known for his railway photos. (Many of his photos are reproduced in Turner's various books.) This photo was taken from the Galiano Island shoreline close to Sturdies Bay. |
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Post by EGfleet on Dec 5, 2011 21:41:11 GMT -8
I didn't see a thread for her...I know there's a tendency to lump the Maggie and the Patricia together, but I think the Pat deserves her own thread. Two shots to start, both vintage and bearing the Canadian Pacific Stamp on the back. This first one is particularly good: And later in her career when she went to cruising... That first photo is also displayed on page 182 of Robert Turner's The Pacific Princesses. This picture was shot by none other than the late Nicholas Morant, the famed CPR corporate photographer, well known for his railway photos. (Many of his photos are reproduced in Turner's various books.) This photo was taken from the Galiano Island shoreline close to Sturdies Bay. Curiously, the photo in the book is ID'ed as the Princess Marguerite, but stamped and hand written onto the photo along with the CP stamp is "Princess Patricia." Easy to mix the two up at that distance, but it makes you wonder who was right--Turner, or the CPR who actually made the print. More importantly--is that wonderful madrona tree still there? |
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Post by WettCoast on Dec 5, 2011 22:05:52 GMT -8
More importantly--is that wonderful madrona tree still there? I am guessing that Nick Morant had his original photos/negatives correctly labeled as to the ship in the picture.... In Canada these trees are usually called arbutus. That is their latin genus name. The Canadian 'Gulf Islands' have lots of arbutus trees along the shorelines and the Sturdies Bay area of Galiano Island is no exception. If the tree in the Princess P/M photo is gone, it has been replaced by several others nearby. I am guessing that these trees are very common in the San Juan Islands as well. The Gulf & San Juan Islands really are one and the same group of islands with a 'man made' artificial boundary drawn between them. Sometimes I think they ought to be collectively renamed the 'Salish Islands'. |
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Post by ancflyer on Dec 21, 2011 13:46:32 GMT -8
found a few more from 66!  Great photo. That is Skagway, Alaska. The ship in front of the Princess Patricia is the White Pass Container Ship, MV Frank H. Brown. And a 3 year old MV Malaspina at the original Skagway AMHS dock. Haven't see a shot like this in years. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 24, 2011 9:21:52 GMT -8
2 ships, same location: - Nicholas Morant is the photographer. From what I've read about Mr. Morant, he liked keep using his good locations which became his favourite spots to do his work. =================== Firstly, we have the Marguerite-II Postcards of the 2nd Marguerite: - the first 3 photos are from the CPR - shot from Sturdies Bay  ==================== Next, we have the Patricia I didn't see a thread for her...I know there's a tendency to lump the Maggie and the Patricia together, but I think the Pat deserves her own thread. Two shots to start, both vintage and bearing the Canadian Pacific Stamp on the back. This first one is particularly good: |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 24, 2011 9:37:44 GMT -8
2 postcards of the 2nd Patricia: Grande postcard by TravelTime. - photo is courtesy of CPR  Gowen, Sutton "Scene-O-chroM" card  |
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Post by FNS on Feb 22, 2013 0:35:41 GMT -8
Here's a photo of the PRINCESS PATRICIA on an off-route excursion in her original configuration:  This might be the Second Narrows railway bridge. |
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Post by mrdot on Feb 22, 2013 17:39:00 GMT -8
Here's a photo of the PRINCESS PATRICIA on an off-route excursion in her original configuration: This might be the Second Narrows railway bridge. this must have been an excursion up Burrard Inlet in the early years of the Princess! she looked good in the first livery and the only external difference with her sister, was the high seting of her whistle on the funnel! these were fine looking ships, built late in a much changed coastal shipping world! mrdot. |
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Post by Variable Pitch on Feb 23, 2013 7:19:59 GMT -8
Wasn't sure where else to put this, some nice shots of the Pat, here is one I recently acquired of the original Princess Patricia circa 1920-1925...  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on May 5, 2013 16:56:58 GMT -8
CP's Princess Patricia (2): Photos are from a 1980s era coffee-table book “Vancouver & British Columbia” which appears to be a gift-book aimed at tourists to Vancouver and BC. Not much is noted in the book regarding publisher info. “Coombie Books” from 1987, with illustrations & text by “Colour Library Books Ltd.” No photo credits mentioned. I purchased this book for $2 at our local Rotary club sale, for the very purpose of posting these photos here, to show a bit from that era. ==================      |
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Post by EGfleet on Feb 21, 2015 10:06:08 GMT -8
Picked up this vintage slide recently...taken in 1983.  |
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Post by FNS on Aug 3, 2015 10:17:25 GMT -8
Nice photo but maybe should be in a different thread as this is the first P Patricia whereas this thread is for her post WW II namesake. Perhaps we could just rename this thread Princess Patricia I & II. Done. |
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