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The 1949-built, 6,062-grt, 2,595-nrt passenger vessel Princess Patricia.

This ship was built in Glasgow, Scotland by the Fairfield Company Ltd. for Canadian Pacific Ltd. of Canada and she was launched bearing the name Princess Patricia. She was built to serve on Canada's west coast carrying passengers between Vancouver to Victoria, British Columbia. This role lasted through the 1950s and by the 1970s she was doing regular cruises North to Alaska. Her routes were generally between Puget Sound, Skagway and Sitka, Alaska to Vancouver and between November and May of each year she operated Los Angeles, California and Acapulco, Mexico.
In 1980 she was laid up then later used as a hotel ship during the World Fair Vancouver during 1986. She was scrapped a few years later.

One of these was a Canadian-born Seattle businessman, Stan McDonald, who had developed a taste for cruising with a charter ship serving the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.

Following that event, McDonald looked for another ship. He was aware that Canadian Pacific's small coastal steamer Princess Patricia, although busy each summer from Vancouver to Alaska, was idle in the winter. He chartered her for two seasons, the first Mexican Riviera cruises from Los Angeles. Princess Patricia lent her name to what would become one of passenger shipping's most famous firms, Princess Cruises.