Former Scotia Prince Ferry to be Scrapped

[Soundbounder]

For 22 years, from 1982 to 2004, the Scotia Prince was a seasonal fixture on Portland’s busy waterfront, ferrying tourists, truckers, gamblers and others to and from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.Its service in Portland came to an abrupt end in a storm of controversy marked by declining ticket sales and a lawsuit that blamed Portland officials for a moldy passenger terminal.
Now, after recent stints housing Hurricane Katrina survivors off the coast of New Orleans, reviving ferry service between India and Sri Lanka and evacuating Indian citizens from war-torn Libya, the 40-year-old ferry is heading for the scrap heap.

http://boatinglocal.com/news/former-scotia-prince-ferry-to-be-scrapped.html

[Mad Scientist]

In (somewhat) related news, the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have agreed to provide up to $1 million each, for the next three years, to keep the Princess of Acadia in operation between Saint John, NB and Digby, NS.

Link: http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/76029-province-kick-3m-over-3-years-digby-ferry

She was built at Saint John in 1971 for Canadian Pacific. Her original engines were reportedly identical to the engines used in some of Canadian Pacific's railway locomotives - in case of engine failure, they'd just grab a replacement from the closest locomotive.

When she was new, her funnel was painted in an adaptation of CP Rail's 1968 Action Red 'pac-man' scheme. Canadian Pacific always considered its passenger ship services to be an extension of its passenger railway operations.

Tom