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The 1840s. The first regular steamship service from the west to the east coast of the United States began on February 28, 1849, with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay. California left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounded Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrived at San Francisco, California after a 4-month 21 ...
William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia. Scrapped 1963. Commandeered by US Navy prior to launch for World War I, entered passenger service in 1920. 1920s. SS President Roosevelt. 1922. United States Line. New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey. Scrapped 1948.
City of Taunton (ship) SS City of Tokio. SS City of Topeka. Clara Brown (steamboat) Colonel Wright (sternwheeler) SS Columbia (1880) Columbia (1850 sidewheeler) SS Comet (1857) SS Constitution.
England, a packet ship of the Black Ball Line. The Wright, Thompson, Marshall, & Thompson Line was founded in 1817 and began shipping operations in 1818. At some point in the line's history it became known as the Old Line and eventually became known as the Black Ball Line after the 1840s. [1] The Black Ball Line pioneered regularly scheduled ...
Great Lakes passenger steamers. The history of commercial passenger shipping on the Great Lakes is long but uneven. It reached its zenith between the mid-19th century and the 1950s. As early as 1844, palace steamers carried passengers and cargo around the Great Lakes. By 1900, fleets of relatively luxurious passenger steamers plied the waters ...
A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freighters [definition needed] once common on the seas in which the transport of passengers is secondary to the carriage of freight.
Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
Drawing by George Davidson in 1793, who served as the ship's artist. 83 ft 6 in (25.45 m) on deck. 10 cannons, 2 heavy stern chaser guns, 4 heavy and 4 lighter broadside guns. Columbia Rediviva (commonly known as Columbia) was a privately owned American ship under the command, first, of John Kendrick, and later Captain Robert Gray, best known ...
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