SS Prince George was a passenger ship built in 1947 for the Canadian National Steamship Company, to ply the route from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Southeast Alaska.

She replaced the 1910 SS Prince George of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, which was declared a constructive total loss after burning in Ketchikan, Alaska, on September 22, 1945.

[2] On October 18, 1953, Prince George, operating in a heavy fog with its radar nonfunctional, ran aground at Ripple Point, in Johnstone Strait.

Caldwell, then the senior Canadian National master, was in the bridge navigating by whistle and echo at the time of the grounding.

[3] In 1959, Prince George, departing from British Columbia ports, was employed on summer cruises to Alaska.