Princess Marguerite

PRINCESS MARGUERITE was for 50 years a familiar member of the PRINCESS LINE of coastal steamers owned by the CPR. The original Marguerite, named for a daughter of CPR president Thomas SHAUGHNESSY, took over service on the "triangle run" (VICTORIA–VANCOUVER–Seattle) in 1925. A flagship of the fleet during the 1930s, it was 106 m long, weighed 5,288 tonnes and featured 147 first-class staterooms. Requisitioned by the military during WWII, it was torpedoed and sank in the Mediterranean in...

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