Dinner on the Prince George

Here’s another colorful dinner menu featuring a glacier that was supposedly visible from the Prince George. This menu has the same date, July 13, as yesterday’s lunch and the day-before-yesterday’s breakfast menu. As I noted with the breakfast menu, on July 13, 1950, the Prince George was headed southbound and would have stopped in Wrangell, Alaska, in the afternoon.

Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF of this menu.

The Prince George almost certainly never came as close to a glacier as the ship in the picture. Today, we often see photos of cruise ships in Glacier Bay, but the ships rarely come closer than a half mile from the glaciers, and in any case Glacier Bay isn’t on the route from Skagway to Vancouver. However, there is nothing to say that the ship in the picture is actually the Prince George; in 1950, as today, there were plenty of smaller boats and ships willing to take Alaska tourists to see the glaciers.


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