Ship Details

Princess Royal (IV)

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Photo Credit: Vancouver Public Library VPL30332

 
 
Registry #1 121988 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1907 Princess Royal (IV) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1907 Place Esquimalt Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 228' x 40' x 16.6'
Builder Esquimalt Marine Railway Co. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1997 Type 1 Passenger Vessel
Registered Tonnage 981 Type 2
Engine 177hp triple expansion 3-cylinder steam engine Engine Manufacture Bow McLachlan & Co., Paisley Scotland UK
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign VFG
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1907-1931 she was owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Services, Montreal QC. In 1931-1933 she was owned by Harold Elworthy and stripped and converted to a sawdust hulk.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1922-01-15
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On September 1, 1906 this vessel was sponsored by Mrs. R. Marpole (wife of the General Superintendent of the CPR). this vessel was employed on the Seattle-Vancouver-Victoria Triangle Route in opposition to the Iroquois of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. until 1909. On January 15, 1922 this passenger ship was in a collision in dense fog with the tug Clinton near the entrance of First Narrows, Vancouver Harbour which caused the Clinton to founder in Burrard Inlet BC. The crew of the Clinton climbed up onto the bow of the steamer to save themselves from the sinking tugboat. Captain of the L.H. Fraser was the last to leave the tug. In 1933 this vessel was broken up by H.B. Elworthy & Co., Victoria BC.
 
References
Musk, George (1981); Canada List of Shipping; MacFarlane, John M. (1990) Capital Iron: Scrap dealers in Lotusland. In Resolution (Newletter of the Maritime Museum of British Columbia); Sooke Region Museum (1989); Victoria Daily Times (Victoria BC) Monday January 16, 1922 page 7;
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