Known locally as "the Maggie",[1] they saw the longest service of any vessel that carried passengers and freight between Victoria, Vancouver, and Seattle.

After being refitted in Esquimalt, she sailed to Hawaii, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, and across the Indian Ocean en route to the Mediterranean, where she served as a troopship.

The second Maggie, along with sister ship TEV Princess Patricia II, was built with turbo-electric propulsion in Scotland as a replacement for her predecessor to serve the Triangle Route.

A $500,000 renovation was undertaken on the vessel at Burrard Dry Dock, which included repainting the vessel white with stylized Union Jacks on the two funnels and the stern, converting the second car deck to a lounge for 200 passengers, refurbishing the dining salon, and modernizing other passenger amenities to current standards of comfort.

Her inaugural voyage under the new ownership carried Premier Dave Barrett of British Columbia, Governor Dan Evans of Washington, and 1,000 other passengers.

In the summer of 1980 the BC Ferries MV Queen of Prince Rupert was renamed Victoria Princess and repainted with a Union Jack livery in keeping with the theme of the previous Maggie.

[13] In 1990 it was reported that the British Columbia government gave approval for the sale of Princess Marguerite to the Mykris Hotels Group of Bristol, England, pending court release of a claim by the Canadian Merchant Service Guild for unpaid severance pay for former ship's officers.

Beginning in 1994 Victoria Lines Ltd., a separate BC crown corporation, transferred her to the Seattle-Victoria route and operated the vessel under the name MV Royal Victorian, offering once-daily service.

[16] In 1997 Clipper Navigation of Seattle took over the service under a $120,000 per year lease-purchase agreement from Victoria Lines, and operated the vessel with the historical Maggie name.

In the summer of 1985 a private Canadian company operated Island Jetfoil, leased from Boeing, which offered service from Vancouver to Victoria and on to Seattle.