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Last week Princess Cruises announced melbourne serviced apartments that it was scheduling the Pacific Princess (above) for a 14-night 50th Anniversary cruise from Los Angeles to the Mexican Riviera on December 3, 2015, fifty years to the day after the chartered Princess Patricia (top) departed on her first voyage for the new line.
For two seasons melbourne serviced apartments Princess melbourne serviced apartments Patricia was chartered melbourne serviced apartments to Stan McDonald, a Canadian-born businessman now in Seattle, for cruising between Los Angeles and Acapulco during the winter.McDonald became excited about cruising during the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.
He eventually branched out to other vessels but chose to name his new company Princess Cruises after the venerable Princess Patricia.History of the S.S. Princess Patricia and the legacy of naming the Love Boat ships of Princess Cruises.
The CPR celebrated 100 years of service in 1981, the same year in which its last remaining cruise ship, the SS Princess Patricia (the original Princess Cruise Line s Love Boat) was tied up, ending that phase of transportation service in the Pacific Northwest.
A painting by Michael L. Grace of the first Love Boat and original cruise ship of Princess Cruises the PRINCESS PATRICIA. The ship is seen sailing under the Vincent melbourne serviced apartments Thomas Bridge in San Pedro   for her first (Princess) cruise to Mexico.
A year later, the CPR inaugurated its famous melbourne serviced apartments Triangle Route, with service between Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria. Princess Charlotte joined the fleet, handling the Triangle melbourne serviced apartments Route as well as occasional excursions to Alaska.
She was very well appointed, and could boast that all 133 first class staterooms had both hot and cold running water. In 1922, she began a 40-year career running to Alaska, earning her nickname “Queen of the Northern melbourne serviced apartments Seas”.
Occupancy was regularly 97 percent and during one season the three ships handled 10,000 passengers on 22 voyages. Revenues dwindled during the Great Depression, and the BCCSS disposed of old or redundant vessels. World War II saw several Princess ships requisitioned for use as troop transports and supply ships.
Fortunately, there was no loss of life but the ship sank. For the next 10 years, Princess Louise handled CPR’s Alaska cruises alone. The arrival of car ferries spelled the end of coastal service and the CPR ended its regular Triangle Run.
For two seasons Princess Patricia was chartered to Stan McDonald, a Canadian-born businessman now in Seattle, for cruising between Los Angeles and Acapulco during the winter. McDonald became excited about cruising during the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. He eventually branched out to other vessels but chose to name his new company Princess Cruises after the venerable Princess Patricia.
Princess Patricia docked in Vancouver, BC, Canada. These were the original colors during the period Stanley McDonald charted the night boat from CPR. The two stacks were later changed to the red colors seen in the photos above.
melbourne serviced apartments The Princess Patricia became the last remaining passenger ship in the CPR fleet, continuing to sail to Alaska each summer until that era ended on October 12, 1981. Her legacy lived on with the many ships of Princess Cruise Lines.
MICHAEL melbourne serviced apartments L. GRACE is part of the award winning team that created the internationally performed award winning musical melbourne serviced apartments SNOOPY, based on PEANUTS by Charles M. Schultz. SNOOPY continues to be one of the most produced shows (amateur stock) in America/Worldwide and has had long running productions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in London's West End. There are over 100 individual productions every year.
He has written movies for TV, including the award-winning melbourne serviced apartments thriller LADY KILLER, various pilots and developed screenplays for Kevin Costner and John Travolta. Besides co-writing and co-producing SNOOPY, he wrote and produced the one-man play KENNEDY. He produced P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD by pulitzer prize winning author James Kirkwood. He wrote the stage thriller FINAL CUT which had productions in the UK, South Africa and Australia. His one-man play, KENNEDY - THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH, was developed for HBO and has starred Andrew Stevens, Gregory melbourne serviced apartments Harrison and Joseph Bottoms.
He has recently been involved in European productions with CLT-UFA, Europe's leading commercial television and radio broadcaster. He wrote MOWs THE DOLL COLLECTION, THE BOTTOM LINE and LAST WITNESS for German television.
While in college and graduate school he worked as a foreign correspondent for COMBAT, the famous leftwing Paris daily, and as a travel writer. He visited more than 50 countries. melbourne serviced apartments He struggled as an actor, then joined the enemy and entered the training program at William Morris. He became a publicist and worked melbourne serviced apartments for Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, at Paramount and MGM. He followed with a brief stint as a story executive, working in the frantic horror genre period of the early 80s and wrote THE UNSEEN.
He went onto write for episodic television and develop melbourne serviced apartments series pilots. He was a continuing writer on such series such as LOVE BOAT, PAPER DOLLS, and KNOTS LANDING. He developed screenplays for such major award winning directors as Nicolas Meyers, Tony Richardson and J. Lee Thompson. He has written for all the major networks and studios. He has been hired numerous melbourne serviced apartments times as a script doctor, doing many uncredited rewrites on TV movies and features.
melbourne serviced apartments He is currently writing A PERSON OF INTEREST, a thriller novel, and, IT'S THE LOVE BOAT... AND HOW IT CHANGED CRUISING BY SHIP a non-fiction book dealing with how the hit TV series as a major cultural phenomenon and altered the style of cruising by ship.
He was raised in Los Angeles. He attended St. Paul's, USC and the Pasadena Playhouse. melbourne serviced apartments He received a B.A from San Francisco State University where he majored in theatre arts and minored in creative writing. He is listed as a SFSU leading alumni. He also apprenticed at ACT - The American Conservatory Theatre. For a brief period he had intentions of becoming an Episcopal(Anglican) priest and attended seminary at Kelham Theological College in the UK. When "the calling" wasn't there, he left seminary and did graduate work at the American University of Beirut.
He has guest lectured at USC, UC San Diego, McGill, melbourne serviced apartments Univ. of London and the Univ. of Texas on the business aspects of making a living and surviving as a writer, focusing on development hell, in the Hollywood entertainment industry.
Thank you, Mr Grace, for the memories of the lovely Princess Patricia. That was the first ship my wife and I cruised in a Vancouver to Alaska cruise way back in 1972. Of course it lacked many of the facilities modern passengers expect, but it had an ambiance that appealed to ship-lovers. The wood-panelling was real, of course, in a ship of that vintage. If the Princess Patricia was still running I wouldn t hesitate to take another cruise in her, although I wouldn t be as cheap as I was in 1972. I would book one of the larger cabins with private facilities rather than the tiny bunk-bed cabin which had no private shower melbourne serviced apartments and toilet.
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