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The Princess fleet is an eponym for the coastal vessels of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the first half of the 20th Century.〔Hacking, Norman R. (1995). ; excerpt; "... creating the CPR's Princess fleet, of which the two largest vessels wer the ''Princess Victoria'' of 1903 and ''Princess Charlotte'' of 1908. See also Turner, Robert D. (1987). ''West of the Great Divide : an Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia, 1880-1986,'' p. 65.〕 The names of these small ocean liners began with the title "Princess." The ships of the British Columbia Coast Steamships came to be called "pocket liners" because they offered amenities like a great ocean liner, but on a smaller scale.〔Steamship Historical Society of America. (1940). ''Steamboat Bill'' (US), Vol. 54, p. 206.〕 The CPR princesses were a coastal counterpart to CPR's "Empress" fleet of passenger liners which sailed on trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic routes.〔Southall, A.E. (1907). ; excerpt, "... in 1891, the far-famed "Empress" fleet was inaugurated."〕 James William Troup is credited with conceiving and building the Princess fleet. In 1913, 10 of the 12 Princess ships in the coastal fleet had been built to the orders of Capt. Troup.〔Musk, George. (1981). ''Canadian Pacific: The Story of the Famous Shipping Line,'' p. 81.〕 Former ferries of CP Steamships that were absorbed by Washington Marine Group (WMG) in 1998. Two years before WMG had gained full control of Seaspan. ==See also== * CP Ships 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Princess fleet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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