{"product_id":"9781459731547-stranded-alaskas-worst-maritime-disaster-nearly-happened-twice","title":"Stranded","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlaska's Worst Maritime Disaster Nearly Happened Twice\u003cbr\u003eIn 1918, Canadian Pacific steamship \u003ci\u003ePrincess Sophia\u003c\/i\u003e ran aground on Alaska’s Vanderbilt reef. She sat there for two terrifying days before sinking in a raging snowstorm. Seventy-six years later, a cruise ship called the \u003ci\u003eStar Princess\u003c\/i\u003e was sailing in the same stretch of water — and Alaska’s worst maritime disaster nearly repeated itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship \u003ci\u003ePrincess Sophia\u003c\/i\u003e was Alaska’s worst maritime disaster — until it nearly happened again.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamship \u003ci\u003ePrincess Sophia\u003c\/i\u003e left Skagway, Alaska, on her last trip of the season to Vancouver. She never made it. Battered by a raging snowstorm and sent dangerously off course, she ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef, a rocky shoal in Lynn Canal, North America’s deepest and longest fjord. She would spend two days high and dry on the reef, with rescue ships standing by, unable to help, before she finally slid to her watery grave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventy-six years later, another ship — the modern \u003ci\u003eStar Princess\u003c\/i\u003e — finds herself off course in Lynn Canal, and history nearly repeats itself. Weaving together events past and present, Aaron Saunders tells the story of two very different ships that set sail from Skagway at opposite ends of the century. Their common bond — the unassuming and often treacherous stretch of water known as Lynn Canal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55419653030262,"sku":"9781459731547","price":16.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_13566502_24462_20250508053605.jpg?v=1748947026","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781459731547-stranded-alaskas-worst-maritime-disaster-nearly-happened-twice","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}