Princess Dawn

The Princess Dawn is a light cargo and passenger steamship. Steam propulsion is delivered through a single screw propeller and sail propulsion is delivered by a set of secondary masts.

Record Setting Transits
The Princess Dawn is noted for its particularly swift transits during fair weather. Due to its relatively short length, narrow beam, and shallow draft with a favorable wind it is capable of rivaling an airship's speed over significant distances while also hauling approximately ten times the tonnage of cargo of the largest airship.

Sinking
Recently arived in the freeport of Yog, while the majority of the crew was ashore and only the high level officers and captain remaining aboard during the middle of the night sounds of a sword fight and firearms were heard from the aftdeck followed shorlty by an explosion centered in the coal bunkers.

It is believed a fight broke out among the officer's that resulted in an accidental fire that spread to the coal bunkers. This claim has been disputed by members of the crew who claim to have seen a hooded figure recruiting ruffians from a dockside tavern for a "raid on the fastest ship afloat." The sruviving crew, entirely low level officers and enlisted men, insist the crew was a tight knit family with no significant strife, especially among the high level officers left on board that night. An investigation by the authorities could not identify more than a tavern rumor leaving the official cause as an "Accidental explosion triggered by a drunken brawl."

Though there were reports of figures swimming away from the sinking wreck no survivors were identified and the ship title passed to free salvage.

Raising and Retrofitting
With the economic uncertainty resulting from the confict pending between the Seating of the Nine and the Court of the Undying little interest was shown in the remains of the Princess Dawn by Yog's typical shipping concerns. An enterprising band of adventurers led by Gareth Kirkhill laid claim to the salvage title and contracted the Von Hel Family Yards to raise and retrofit the hulk.