Can you believe it’s 40 years that Princess Cruises has been sailing out of the port of San Francisco? The cruise line just celebrated its 40th anniversary on June 3, 2009.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declared it Princess Cruises Day and bigwigs fro the cruise line met with Rodney Fong, president of the San Francisco Port Commission.

The ship that first set sail from Princess Cruise Lines out of the City by the Bay was the Princess Italia. She was bound for Alaska, still a top destination for Princess today. The image is a successor ship–this is the Sapphire Princess that travels to Alaska right now.

According to people who keep track of this kind of thing, Princess has called on the port of San Francisco about 1000 times and taken over one million passengers from that scenic city to a Pacific cruise.

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