SS Princess Patricia

Princess Patricia, was launched on 5 October 1948 and completed in May 1949 for the Canadian Pacific Railway, was the first ship to operate for Princess Cruises, one of the largest cruise lines in the world.

Stanley McDonald chartered the Canadian Pacific steamer in 1965.

[1] This is the period when Princess Patricia, which cruised to Alaska, would be laid up.

The second of Canadian Pacific Line's two 356 foot long, 56 foot wide, 5,611/6,062 ton (1963 refit) Fairfield Shipbuilding, Scotland-built west Pacific coast steam turbine passenger ships, Princess Patricia was named in 1949 for Princess Patricia of Connaught.

She was retired from Alaskan cruising services in 1978, used as a floating hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia for the 1986 World's Fair.

SS Princess Patricia at the CP Rail dock just west of Canada Place in September 1984.
SS Princess Patricia at the CP Rail dock just west of Canada Place in September 1984. This is now the current site of Vancouver's Convention Centre West.