Princess Adelaide (passenger Steamer)

The Canadian Pacific Railway added the steel, singlescrew, single-stack passenger steamer Princess Adelaide to its coastal fleet in 1910, the vessel arriving from the Fairfield yard at Govan (Glasgow) early in December in charge of Capt. A. A. Lingren, with R. Esdale, chief officer, H. A. Moore, second officer, J. Cockton, third officer, and Thomas Moffatt, chief engineer. She and her sister ship, Princess Alice, which arrived the following year, were designed for economy of operation with reasonable speed, and the Adelaide performed admirably on the outward voyage, averaging 1 1 1/2 knots on 24 tons of coal a day, using only two of her four boilers. During her trials she achieved a maximum speed of 18 1/2 knots. Of 3,061 tons, her dimensions were 290.5 x 46.1 x 15, with four-cylinder triple expansion engine 27, 42, 48, 48 x 39. She was finished throughout in natural woods, having a large dining salon seating 150, as well as grill room and cafe accommodating another 100. Her staterooms numbered 118, all fitte

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