SS Princess Sophia was a steel-built passenger liner in the coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). Along with SS Princess Adelaide, SS Princess Alice, and SS Princess Mary, Princess Sophia was one of four similar ships built for CPR during 1910-1911. [4]

Approximately 6 years after the sinking of the Titanic, the Princess Sophia, also named the “unknown Titanic of the West Coast,” remains one of the worst shipwrecks on the west coast of North America. The tragic sinking of the Princess Sophia, a Canadian Pacific Steamer, occurred in late October 1918.

2018年10月10日 · Approximately six years after the sinking of the Titanic, the Princess Sophia, also named the “unknown Titanic of the West Coast,” remains the worst shipwreck on the west coast of North America....

On Oct. 25, 1918, the SS Princess Sophia, a Canadian Pacific steam ship, sank in the Alaska Panhandle. All 364 passengers and crew died. There were Americans and Canadians on board, but the...

On October 25, 1918, the coastal steamer SS Princess Sophia sank after hitting Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal north of Juneau, Alaska, with the loss of at all 343 people on board. Over 100 of those people were from Dawson.

2020年10月24日 · Princess Sophia was a small, but tough, liner: just 245 feet long and 2,320 GRT. Built by Bow, McLachlan and Company in Paisley, Scotland, she was constructed out of steel and featured a double hull. Yet the coastal liner’s durability was pushed far beyond its limits on her final voyage.

2019年9月6日 · Over 350 passengers lost their lives in the wintry waters off the Alaskan coast when, during a terrible storm, the SS Princess Sophia hit Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau and sank with all aboard. The vessel had been heading south to its home port in Victoria.

2018年4月10日 · The SS Princess Sophia was travelling from Alaska to Vancouver and Victoria, B.C. on Oct. 24, 1918, when she encountered stormy weather. The ship was four hours out of Skagway, Alaska, when...

The sinking of the SS Princess Sophia in 1918 is the deadliest maritime disaster in the history of the Pacific Northwest. This documentary seeks to memorialize the story and honor the legacy of those who perished.

On the night of 25 October 1918, the Canadian Pacific Railway’s SS Princess Sophia sank in the icy waters of Lynn Canal, taking all those aboard the ship down with her. The only survivor of the wreck was an oil-soaked dog.