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SS California was one of the first steamships to steam in the Pacific Ocean and the first steamship to travel from Central America to North America. She was built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company which was founded on April 18, 1848, as a joint stock company in the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants: William H. Aspinwall, Edwin Bartlett, Henry Chauncey, Mr. Alsop, G.G ...
The California, Oregon, and Mexico Steamship Company bought the entire ocean-going fleet of the California Steam Navigation Company. It bought Active, Ajax, California, Orizba, Pacific, and Senator. [18] [19] [20] This forced the California Steam Navigation Company back to its Bay Area core, which itself was suffering from competition from new ...
Two ships in the Reid Newfoundland fleet did not adhere to the Alphabet Fleet naming system: Virginia Lake, acquired after the loss of Fife, and Sagona, acquired in 1914. SS Virginia Lake in a way-port. SS Virginia Lake was originally named Conscript and was built in 1888 by A. McMillian & Company, Dumbarton, Scotland. Launched on 10 March 1888 ...
California was 8,662 GRT and 5,403 NRT, with a length of 470 feet (140 m), a beam of 58.3 ft (17.8 m) and a depth of 34 ft (10 m). The California had three decks: the poop deck was 70 feet (21 m) long, the bridge 213 feet (65 m) long and the forecastle 91 ft (28 m) long. She had two black funnels and two masts.
Map (1854) showing the position of the collision (upper right) between Arctic and Vesta, (roughly 46° 45'N, 52° 06'W) [30] and the relative positions of land: Newfoundland, Halifax, Quebec, New York. At noon on September 27, Luce calculated the ship's position at roughly 50 miles (80 km) south-east of Cape Race in Newfoundland. [32]
Her sea trials showed her to be "the world's most economical steamship for fuel consumption per horsepower-hour for her day." [9] Her primary role was to entice passengers between England and Quebec instead of the more popular Southampton–New York route. The ship was designed to carry 1,195 passengers (465 first class, 260 tourist class and ...
This power station was designed by San Francisco architect Frederick Meyer, one of many designed for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Northern California between 1905 and the 1920s. It is a one-story rectangular industrial building, 25 feet (7.6 m) high, 53 feet (16 m) wide and 110 feet (34 m) long, that rests on a concrete base.
Red Cross Liner Florizel wrecked on the Rocky Coast of Newfoundland, 1918 The rescue fleet assembled about sunken Florizel at 8:30 AM February 24, 1918. Florizel departed St. John's on Saturday, 23 February 1918, for Halifax and then on to New York, with 78 passengers and 60 crew. [1] Among the passengers were many prominent St. John's businessmen.