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SS Princess Marguerite

IMO 5284900CanadaBuilt 1949

Operated by Canadian Pacific Railway

Photo: Barry Lewis · CC BY 2.0 · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About SS Princess Marguerite

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Princess Marguerite, Princess Marguerite II, and Princess Marguerite III was a series of Canadian coastal passenger vessels that operated along the west coast of British Columbia and into Puget Sound in Washington state almost continuously from 1925 to 1999. Known locally as "the Maggie", they saw the longest service of any vessel that carried passengers and freight between Victoria, Vancouver, and Seattle. The vessels were owned and operated by a series of companies, primarily Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPSS) and British Columbia Steamships Corporation. The first two were part of the CPR "Princess fleet," which was composed of ships having names which began with the title "Princess". These were named after Marguerite Kathleen Shaughnessy, who was not a princess but was the daughter of Baron Thomas Shaughnessy, then chairman of the board of CPSS's parent, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).

Quoted from SS Princess Marguerite on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 5284900

In context

How SS Princess Marguerite compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 404 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Canada flag.

SS Princess Marguerite was built in 1949, making it 77 years old. It is one of 107 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,256 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 27 vessels to John Brown & Company, with a median tonnage of 21,370 GT, delivered between 1936 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 113.9 m overall, SS Princess Marguerite is 1.1 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5284900 this registry holds 24 other vessels, whose median build year is 1955 and which range from 1922 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1949.

Its IMO number, 5284900, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 0×2 = 130 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by IMO number

Ship	IMO	Built
SS Princess Patricia	5284924	1949
Princess Elizabeth	5284869	1927
MS Princess of Tasmania	5284986	1959
IMO 5284807	5284807	1936

Same yard, same years

Built alongside at John Brown & Company

No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.