Princess Beatrice was a steamship built for and owned by the marine division of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The ship served from 1903 to 1928 in the coastal waters of British Columbia. The ship also operated on Puget Sound on a route from Victoria, British Columbia to Seattle, Washington. Princess Beatrice was the first ship to operate in the year-round steamship service between Seattle and Victoria that was run by CPR from 1904 to 1959. This ship should not be confused with an earlier Princess Beatrice, built in Scotland in 1874, which served on the Atlantic coast of Canada. Design and construction Princess Beatrice was built in 1903 at Esquimalt, British Columbia by the B.C. Marine Railway Co., Ltd. The Princess Beatrice was the first Princess ship built for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The dimensions of the ship were in length, beam, and depth of hold, . The power plant was a triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by Bow, McLachlan & Co. of Paisley, Scotland, producing . The engine had three cylinders, with diameters ranging from high pressure to low pressure of 18, 30 and , with a bore stroke on all three cylinders of . The ship had design speed of and was driven by a single propeller. The ship was built of wood. Princess Beatrice was one of the largest vessels to have been constructed in British Columbia up to that time. The cost of construction was $200,000. The ship was launched on September 10, 1903. Trial runs were completed in November 1903. The Canadian registration number was 116405. The ship was licensed for 350 day passengers. There were 40 staterooms which could accommodate 86 overnight passengers. The ship's accommodations were considered to be luxurious, and they included, consistent with the practices of the times, a separate cabin for women and children. Operations Captain James W. Troup, the superintendent of the CPR coast steamship division, intended that Princess Beatrice be operated on the run between Victoria and New Westminster until the spring of 1904, when the ship was to be transferred to a route to the Nass River and southeastern Alaska. However, with the sinking of the American steamship en route from Seattle to Victoria on January 7, 1904, the citizens of Victoria asked that the CPR put a replacement steamer on the Victoria–Seattle run. In response Troup assigned the Princess Beatrice to the route, with the