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Stranded - by Aaron Saunders (Paperback)

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  • The sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia was Alaska's worst maritime disaster -- until it nearly happened again.
  • About the Author: Aaron Saunders writes about cruises and maritime history for The Province, Canadian Traveller, Cruise & Travel Lifestyles, Shippax CFI, and many others.
  • 144 Pages
  • Transportation,

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About the Book



In 1918, Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia ran aground on Alaska's Vanderbilt reef. She sat there for two terrifying days before sinking in a raging snowstorm. Seventy-six years later, a cruise ship called the Star Princess was sailing in the same stretch of water -- and Alaska's worst maritime disaster nearly repeated itself.



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The sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia was Alaska's worst maritime disaster -- until it nearly happened again.

In 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia left Skagway, Alaska, on her last trip of the season to Vancouver. She never made it. Battered by a raging snowstorm and sent dangerously off course, she ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef, a rocky shoal in Lynn Canal, North America's deepest and longest fjord. She would spend two days high and dry on the reef, with rescue ships standing by, unable to help, before she finally slid to her watery grave.

Seventy-six years later, another ship -- the modern Star Princess -- finds herself off course in Lynn Canal, and history nearly repeats itself. Weaving together events past and present, Aaron Saunders tells the story of two very different ships that set sail from Skagway at opposite ends of the century. Their common bond -- the unassuming and often treacherous stretch of water known as Lynn Canal.



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Stranded is a fluid telling of the stories of two passenger ship groundings in Alaskan coastal waters.-- "The Northern Mariner"



About the Author



Aaron Saunders writes about cruises and maritime history for The Province, Canadian Traveller, Cruise & Travel Lifestyles, Shippax CFI, and many others. He is the founder of the website From the Deck Chair. When not at sea, he calls Vancouver home.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 8.4 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .85 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 144
Genre: Transportation
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Theme: History
Format: Paperback
Author: Aaron Saunders
Language: English
Street Date: November 17, 2015
TCIN: 1010865010
UPC: 9781459731547
Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-4089
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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