In the early hours of the morning of 24 October, the Sophia ran aground on the top of an underwater mountain known as Vanderbilt Reef.Locke had kept the Sophia steaming through Lynn Canal at full speed, comforted by the knowledge that the passage at this point was seven miles across, and that the part of the journey that was actually expected to be difficult was still ahead. Photo Credit: Library and Archives Canada image c002470.

Mr. Hunsaker is an active writer and globetrotter whose home near Echo Cove in Juneau …

“It was just a coffin boat, that’s all.” – Walmis Newman, crew member of one of the Sophia’s rescue ships. We have commissioned a brand new, full scale opera based on the sinking of the SS Princess Sophia to coincide with the 100th anniversary in October 2018! A ceremony to honor the SS Princess Sophia victims will be held in Skagway at the White Pass & Yukon Route depot at 1 p.m. on Oct. 20, followed by the …

Princess Charlotte, four, attended her first Christmas Day service in Sandringham. History: Oct 24, 1918 – The SS Princess Sophia … Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea.

The opera is well underway! The triangle between the two is the buoy used to mark the treacherous Vanderbilt Reef.

1 The SS Princess Sophia was travelling from Alaska to Vancouver and Victoria, B.C.

Canadian Steamships Line, Princess Sophia, about 245 ft long (75m), circa 1912.

The young royals were …

Princess Charlotte steals the show at Sandringham as she hugs a well-wisher following the Christmas Day church service. on Oct. 24, 1918, when she encountered stormy weather. The Sinking One of the rescue ships observes the last visible trace of the Princess Sophia, her cargo mast, on the morning of 26 October. SS Princess Sophia c.1912. The young royal was praised by fans after 'sweet' footage showed the moment she curtseyed to the Queen. There were no survivors from the ship. The Canadian Pacific’s Princess Alaska on October 25, 1918. Vanderbilt Reef. There are 66 people buried at Mountain View as a result of this tragedy.-steamship Princess Sophia slid from the comparative safety of Vanderbilt reef, in Lynn Canad, Juneau, early Friday evening and carried 343 persons, pas-sengers and crew, men, women the raging northern waters. Sofia (/ ˈ s oʊ f i ə, ˈ s ɒ f-, s oʊ ˈ f iː ə / SOH-fee-ə, SOF-; Bulgarian: София, romanized: Sofiya, IPA: ()) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.The city is at the foot of Vitosha mountain in the western part of the country.

We are excited to have engaged the following creative team: Dave Hunsaker, Librettist.