This passenger-cargo ship was built under yard No 632 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd., Covan Fairfield, Scotland for the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Vancouver B.C.
27 September 1928 launched as the PRINCESS NORAH.
Tonnage; 2,731 gross, 1,519 net, dim. 262 x 48 x 26ft.
One triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by shipbuilder, 487 nhp, speed 16 knots.
Accommodation for 165 passengers.
November 1928 completed.
Her maiden voyage was from the Clyde River on 20 December 1928 and she arrived at Victoria B.C. on 23 January 1929.
During the summer months in the service of the west coast of Vancouver Island and during the winter months in a service to Alaska.
October 1955 renamed in the QUEEN OF THE NORTH for a service together with CNR ships to Kitimat.
31 December 1957 the service to Kitimat terminated and she was renamed again in PRINCESS NORAH.
1958 Sold to Northland Navigation Co. Ltd. and renamed in CANADIAN PRINCE.
November 1964 her machinery and boilers were removed, and she was renamed in BEACHCOMBER, and fitted out as a floating restaurant and dancing. Towed by the HECATE PRINCE to Kodiak, Alaska.
1981 Partly dismantled in Kodiak where after she was abandoned, a photo of her shows only the bottom of the ship exist laying along the shoreline filled with rocks, so it looks that she is used as a breakwater.
Source: Internet. http://www.clydeships.co.uk Canadian Pacific by George Musk.
Canada 1992 42c sgMS1503, scott1429, she is the ship in the background while the IMPERIAL VANCOUVER is moored alongside in the foreground, see http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=15567