"Princess Sophia"

Juneauites gathered for two separate memorials on Thursday to commemorate the centennial of the Princess Sophia tragedy.

A collaboration of producers and artists from across the country present a new opera about a local tragedy: “The Princess Sophia.” Can art help us process the worst maritime disaster in Alaska history?

What happened on Vanderbilt Reef in October 1918? And why was the sinking of the S.S. Princess Sophia quickly forgotten in Alaska and Canada?

Alaskan artists come together to write, compose, and conduct an original opera based on the deadliest maritime disaster in Alaska history: the October 1918 shipwreck and sinking of the Princess Sophia that killed over 340 people near Juneau.

A traveling version of the exhibit will be on display in Juneau at the Alaska State Museum from July to September.

A grease-smudged stack of 25 fading sheets of paper in a storage shed is one of only two copies of who’s buried where in Evergreen Cemetery. All the burials since 1986 are handwritten, but that’s about to change.

Princess Sophia passengers, including first to summit Denali, remembered in Evergreen Cemetary

Lawsuit documents provide best records of those who perished on Vanderbilt Reef in 1918

Historian reflects on impact of Princess Sophia sinking near Juneau, greatest maritime tragedy in Alaska waters