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According to the January 11, 1854, Sacramento Daily Union, the first steamboat in California, besides the Sitka, was the Pioneer brought out in pieces from Boston, and put together at the West Point, in Benicia, and launched there in August, 1849, by the "Edward Everett Company". She was a side-wheeler, 70 feet in length, 25 feet beam, with an ...
The Steamboats of California. Including those on the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River and their tributaries, Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, San Francisco Bay and the Colorado River. Steamboats and steam ferries also operated in San Diego Bay, San Pedro Bay, Humboldt Bay and elsewhere on the California Coast.
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 ...
Delta King is a 285-foot-long sternwheel steamboat (87 m) and the sister ship of Delta Queen, built in Glasgow, Scotland and Stockton, California for the California Transportation Company's service between Sacramento and San Francisco, California. She entered service in 1927 and continued until 1940.
The maritime history of California can be divided ... To see pictures of tule canoes use ... By 1848 steamboats built by both United States and British shipbuilders ...
Chrysopolis, a famous side-wheel steamboat that ran between Sacramento and San Francisco from 1860 to 1875 when it was rebuilt as a ferry that continued in service for more than 60 years. Chrysopolis was built in San Francisco, by shipbuilder John Gunder North in his new shipyard in the Potrero District.
Capital, was the largest of the steamboats on the rivers in California and the last side-wheel steamer built for the California Steam Navigation Company for the run between Sacramento and San Francisco until it was put to use as a ferry by the railroad between Oakland and San Francisco in July 1876. It remained on the water under various owners ...
She was heading upriver from San Francisco to Sacramento when the boilers blew near Steamboat Slough, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Rio Vista. [1] The explosion of 9 p.m. on September 5, 1864, resulted in 54 confirmed deaths and 67 missing passengers. [2] Other accounts have the confirmed death toll from 70 to more than 80.