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Posted 31 January 2016 - 08:17 AM

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File Name: SS PRINCESS ALICE 1911
File Submitter: CrisGer
File Submitted: 31 Jan 2016
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SS PRINCESS ALICE
1911
Coastal Passenger Steamship Liner
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Chris Gerlach - Jeff Farquar (Master Chief)

This is a model of a Canadian Steamship that worked the Inland passage of the coast of British Columbia. She carried both passengers and freight and was one of four sister ships.

This model is free for use for any sim, you may convert it and repaint her as you wish however I would reueust a review copy of any alteration before you release and reserve the right to withold permission if the conversion does not meet minimum standards of quality. The original hull was a gift for use by Ron Piccard with his kind permission, and I have made extensive alterations for use for this beautiful ship. The textures are partly from work by John Fleming again with his kind permission for re use and others are from my own research into nautical history and maritime lore. This ship was designed to be able to serve the small ports and harbors of the west coast of Canada, and could navigate into shallow regions. she carried booms forward to load and unload freight,passengers could be loaded via gangways for and aft. Details of her construction, capacity and service follow.

I received generous help from many including Tim Muir, Barry Munro (Capt. Bazza), Jeff Farquar. and others in the community to whom I am forever grateful for technical advice, encouragement and support. Without them this and other work that I do would not have been possible. Both Tim and Jeff helped with adjustments to the hull which is a very complex shape typical of the early 1900s.

Rights and Permissions and Credits:

This model is based on a hull by Ron Piccard, with extensive alterations by Jeff Farquar and myself, textures are from Naval sources and some originals by John Fleming. The model is available for reuse but not for commerical use of any kind without my permission, however if it is converted that may be allowed. The TSM source file is included in this release. Jeff also made the excellent anchor found on this model.

May God Preserve all who sail in ships such as her and those who face peril on the seas.

Chris Gerlach (CrisGer)
Elvas Tower
chrisgerlach9@yahoo.mail
January 2016

Canadian Pacific Railways Steamship Company

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

Name: Princess Alice
Owner: Canadian Pacific Railway
Name:
1911-1949: SS Princess Alice
1949-1966 SS Aegaeon

Owner:

1911-1949: Canadian Pacific
1949-1966: Typaldos Line

Port of registry:

1911-1949: Canada
1949-1966: Greece

Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson
Yard number: 833
Launched: March 29, 1911
Completed: September 1911
Out of service: 1966
Fate: wrecked in tow at Civitavecchia, December 1966

1,466 tons net register

Class & type: Ocean liner
Tonnage: 3,099 tons
Length: 290.6 ft (88.6 m)
Beam: 44 ft (13 m)
Draught: 12 ft (4 m)
Depth: 24 ft (7 m) depth of hold
Installed power: One triple expansion steam engine, 22", 37", and 60" x 36"
Propulsion: single screw
Speed: 14 knots (26 km/h)
Capacity: 250 passengers; could carry more with special permission (capacity for 500)
Crew: 73
Notes: Originally coal-burning; converted to oil fuel shortly after arrival in British Columbia

Beginning in 1901, Canadian Pacific Railway ran a line of steamships on the west coast of Canada and the southeast coast of Alaska. The route from Victoria, BC and Vancouver, BC ran through the winding channels and fjords along the coast, stopping at the principal towns for passengers, cargo, and mail. This route is still important today and is called the Inside Passage. Major ports of call along the Inside Passage include Prince Rupert, BC; Alert Bay, BC; Wrangell, AK; Ketchikan, AK; Juneau, AK; and Skagway, AK.

Many different types of vessels navigated the Inside Passage, but the dominant type on longer routes was the "coastal liner". A coastal liner was a vessel which if necessary could withstand severe ocean conditions, but in general was expected to operate in relatively protected coastal waters. For example, as a coastal liner, Princess Sophia would only be licensed to carry passengers within 50 miles of the coastline. Coastal liners carried both passengers and freight, and were often the only link that isolated coastal communities had with the outside world. Originally coastal liners were built of wood, and continued to be so built until well after the time when ocean liners had moved to iron and then steel construction. After several shipwrecks in the Inside Passage and other areas of the Pacific Northwest showed the weakness of wooden hulls, CPR switched over to steel construction for all new vessels.

Princess Alice was also called a "pocket liner" because she offered amenities like a great ocean liner, but on a smaller scale. The ship was part of the CPR "Princess fleet," which was composed of ships having names which began with the title "Princess".

Design and construction

Princess Alice was a steamship of 2,320 tons gross and 1,466 tons net register, built by Bow, McLachlan and Company at Paisley, Scotland. A strong, durable vessel, she was built of steel with a double hull. Princess Alice was capable of handling more than just the Inside Passage, as her use on the stormy west coast of Vancouver Island demonstrated. Princess Alice was equipped with wireless communications and full electric lighting. The ship was launched in November 1910 and completed in 1911. As built, Princess Alice burned coal; however, the vessel was converted to oil fuel shortly after arrival in British Columbia. While not as luxurious as her fleet-mates serving the Pacific Northwest, Princess Alice was comfortable throughout, particularly in first class. She had a forward observation lounge panelled in maple, a social hall with a piano for first-class passengers, and a 112-seat dining room with large windows for observing the coastal scenery.

The SS Princess Alice was built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend, United Kingdom for the Canadian Pacific Railway.[ Princess Alice was launched on May 29, 1911; and she was completed in September 1911.

The 3,099-ton vessel had length of 290.6 feet (88.6 m), breadth of 46.1 feet (14.1 m), and depth of 14.3 feet (4.4 m)

In 1913, Princess Alice made several special Alaskan cruises through the inside passage at reduced rate of $60 round trip.

In 1949, the ship was sold to Typaldos Lines, and she was renamed SS Aegaeon. On April 1, 1955 the ship, sailing from Venice, undertook a "Hellenic Cruise" organised by Swans Tours of 8, Great Russell Street, London. The cruise took the ships passengers southwards to the Ionian Sea, through the Corinth Canal and into the Aegean Sea, thence through the Sea of Marma, and on to Istanbul. In returning through the Sea of Marma the ship visited Thassoss, Skiathos, and Skros, before berthing at Piraeus, where passengers went on to Athens. The ship then returned through the Corinth Canal to Venice. On the outward leg many sites of antiquity were visited, including Ithaca, Delphi, Delos, Mykonos, Samos, Ephesus and Troy. Among the many passengers on the cruise were The Hon. Michael Berry (later Baron Hartwell) and Lady Berry; Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, with his son The Viscount of Furneaux (later Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead; the classical scholar Sir Maurice Bowra; American born Professor Sir Arthur Lehman Goodhart, and his wife Lady Goodhart; The Lord Moyne (Bryan Walter Guinness of the brewing family) and Lady Elisabeth Moyne, with four of their children; the former war-time MI6 Swiss station chief Count Frederick Vanden-Heuvel and his wife Countess Vanden-Heuvel; and the noted archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler and Lady Wheeler. The cruise was completed on April 15, 1955 when the ship berthed at Venice. Sir Maurice Bowra and Sir Mortimer Wheeler, along with other academics, gave talks both aboard ship and at various sites visited.

The ship was wrecked in tow at Civitavecchia in December 1966.

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