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SS Santa Paula (later SS Acropolis) was a passenger and cargo ocean liner built for the Grace Line.She was the second of four sister ships (the others being Santa Elena, Santa Lucia and Santa Rosa) ordered in 1930 from the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, NJ.
Ship Class Notes 11 January Kingdom of France: Toulon: Oiseau: Frigate: For French Navy. 12 January Cuba: Havana: San Francisco de Paula: San Francisco de Paula-class ship of the line: For Spanish Navy. [1] 28 February Republic of Venice: Zuane Verdua Venice: Ercole: Fourth rate: For Venetian Navy. [2] 3 March Cuba: Mateo Mullan Havana: Nuestra ...
H. T. Clay: The ship's frames were constructed in New Orleans and then sent to San Francisco where they were assembled in 1850. She was one of the original vessels consolidated into the company in 1854 [43] [95] Hartford: The ship sailed from New York to San Francisco, arriving January 24, 1849. She was nearly destroyed in a fire in early 1851 ...
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 port of San Francisco boomed and expanded very rapidly to a California state census population of about 32,000 in 1852 (San Francisco—the largest city in the state—U.S. California Census of 1850 was burned in one of the frequent fires in San Francisco [60]).
Pacific Far East Line, also called PFEL in short, was a passenger and cargo shipping line founded in 1943 by Thomas E. Cuffe, in San Francisco, California. [1] At the beginning he started by chartering foreign ships to run the lines in tramp trade. Later scheduled cargo services were added to the line.
The Sierra was a favorite honeymoon ship for passengers wanting to travel from California to Honolulu, Hawaii. [3] Her sister ships were the S. S. Sonoma (1900) and the S. S. Ventura (1900). In 1934, Yuji Kimoto of Osaka, Japan bought the ships from the Oceanic Steamship Company for the price of $59,500 each. [4]
On 12 January 1933, SS Lurline left New York City bound for San Francisco via the Panama Canal on her maiden voyage, thence to Sydney and the South Seas, returning to San Francisco on 24 April 1933. She then served on the express San Francisco to Honolulu service with her sister "White Fleet" ship Malolo.