MOTOR PRINCESS

BUILT: 1923, Yarrows, British Columbia, Canada

PREVIOUS/LATER NAMES: a. Motor Princess, b. Pender Queen, c. Pender Lady

OFFICIAL NUMBER: 180894

L/B/D: 153 x 44 x 9 GROSS/NET TONS: 428/291 (final) PASSENGERS/AUTOS: 250/40

PROPULSION:  one White Superior diesel engine, 1050 HP SPEED:  9 knots

NAME TRANSLATION: named because of its role as an automobile ferry and because of its diesel propulsion.  Later became the ferry Pender Queen.

FINAL DISPOSITION: 1955: Sold to Gulf Island Ferry Company, rebuilt with steel passenger

cabin and open car deck. 1961: Sold to B.C. Ferries and renamed Pender Queen.

Retired in 1980; used as a fish camp; sank in Naden Harbour, Graham Island, British Columbia, June 24, 2003.  Raised and broken up, August 2003.