ship making its first trip to Seattle on January 20, 1904. This marked the beginning of a year-round daily passenger service that was maintained between Seattle and Victoria by the CPR Coast Service until 1959. This became part of the "Triangle Route" of steamships running between Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Beatrice docked at Pier 2 in Seattle. While in this service, Princess Beatrice was drawn into a rate war on the Victoria route that broke out between the CPR Coast Service and its American rival, the Puget Sound Navigation Company When the was brought into service in 1907, the plan became to relieve the Princess Beatrice on the Seattle–Victoria round in the winter, and use the Princess Beatrice on the Prince Rupert run. Beatrice served on the North Coast of British Columbia, making stops at the mining, logging and cannery ports along the northern coast. In October 1911 Princess Beatrice ran aground on Noble Island. Economic dislocation in November 1914, caused by World War I forced CPR to idle half of its fleet, including Princess Beatrice. Captain Thomas Rippon, later appointed superintendent of the CPR Coast Service, was in command of Princess Beatrice from 1916 to 1920. Disposition In 1928 the CPR brought a new vessel, the into service, and was able to retire the Princess Beatrice. Princess Beatrice was sold to B.L. Johnson, Walton & Co., a Vancouver concern, who removed the ship's machinery and converted the hulk to a floating cannery. The ex-Princess Beatrice, now a cannery, was then towed to the west coast of Vancouver Island. Scrapped about 1930, a bill of sale from May 23, 1935 shows the cannery hulk was sold by British Columbia Packers Limited to Captain Cyril James House for, "one dollar and any other valuable considerations". The Princess Beatrice was the only Princess ship not converted to burn oil fuel. Notes References Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake -- Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985 Kline, Mary S., and Bayless, G.A., Ferryboats -- A Legend on Puget Sound, Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983 Newell, Gordon R. ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing, Seattle WA (1966) Turner, Robert D., Pacific Princesses – An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway’s Princess Fleet on the Pacific Northwest Coast, Sono Nis Press, Victoria, B.C., 1977 Norman R.