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To: Grainne who wrote (104078)	5/15/2005 9:41:31 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) of 108807

I'm fascinated with shipwrecks Really? That as been a lifelong interest of mine. Are you familiar with the "Princess Sophia"? It is one of the most curious and tragic of shipwrecks. Around 1918, the Sophia shuttled back and forth between Alaska and Seattle as relatively luxurious liner. On her last departure of the season from Skagway, she got hung-up on a reef in the Inland Waterway, only a mile or so from land. Other vessels came to her aid, but the captain considered the waters were too rough for a passenger transfer. The situation went on for two days, and then, in the dark of night, she slipped off the reef and sank. Of 350 passengers, the sole survivor was an scraggly English Setter. The National Geographic channel shows a one-hour chronicle of the disaster, including dives on the wreck. Liners plied the Pacific coast regularly in those days, and there were quite a number of odd and heartbreaking losses of passenger vessels close to shore. Most people today have no knowledge of this phase of our maritime history.

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