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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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