The Baffling Tragedy of the SS Princess Sophia

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Late one stormy October night in 1918, Canadian Pacific's SS Princess Sophia grounded on Vanderbilt Reef in Alaska's Inside Passage. Despite numerous rescue vessels reaching the scene and nearly two days spent stranded on the rocks, no one survived this baffling tragedy, the deadliest shipwreck in the history of Alaska and British Columbia.

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Sources:
Great shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast by Robert Belyk
https://www.nps.gov/articles/khns-pri...
https://www.juneauempire.com/news/the...

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Chapters:
0:00 The Decision to Abandon Ship
1:31 Chapter 1: SS Princess Sophia
6:00 Chapter 2: The Final Voyage
10:38 Chapter 3: Vanderbilt Reef
12:32 Chapter 4: On the Verge of Rescue
15:57 Chapter 5: Desperation
19:20 Chapter 6: No Survivors

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