SS Prince George (1947)
| History | |
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| Canada | |
| Name: | Prince George |
| Builder: | Yarrows Ltd, Esquimalt, BC |
| Launched: | October 6, 1947 |
| In service: | June 1948 |
| Out of service: | 1995 |
| Fate: | Burned in Britannia Beach, BC and later towed to scrappers in China, but sank on the way. |
| General characteristics | |
SS Prince George was a passenger ship built in 1948 for the Canadian National Steamship Company, to ply the route from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Southeast Alaska. The ship was sold in 1976 for use as a floating restaurant, and passed through the hands of several different owners until October 1995, when it caught fire at Britannia Beach, BC, and was sold for scrap. However, en route to China on October 25, the Prince George sank under tow in Unimak Pass, Alaska.[1]
References
- ↑ SitNews - Stories In The News. "SitNews - The Burning of the S.S. Prince George By DAVE KIFFER". sitnews.us. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
Above reference refers to the 1910 Prince George of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and not he 1947 ship. SS Prince George
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