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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 ...
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 ...
At 04:16, Chief Officer George F. Stewart relieved Stone, and almost immediately noticed, coming into view from the south, a brilliantly-lit, four-masted steamship with one funnel; [43] Carpathia arrived on the scene shortly after 04:00. [44] Captain Lord woke up at 04:30 and went out on deck to decide how to proceed past the ice to the west.
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 ...
The "island" of California, from a map circa 1650. Restored. Ulloa's discoveries of 1539 were apparently still secret. In 1539, Francisco de Ulloa under commission from the Viceroyalty of New Spain and New Spain (Mexico) conqueror, Hernán Cortés, explored the Gulf of California to the Colorado River—establishing Baja California as a peninsula.
The first large steam driven vessel running between San Francisco and Sacramento was the steamship McKim, a 400-ton ex Army propeller driven transport steamship that had sailed to California from New Orleans. McKim made its first regular run up river on October 26, 1849, in 17 hours, touching at Benicia on the way to Sacramento. Its schedule ...
CN Marine also operated the Newfoundland Dockyard in St. John's, Newfoundland. CN Marine undertook several major service improvements on the constitutionally mandated services to Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island by commissioning the construction of the new vessels Abegweit and Caribou in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
SS California entering Havana Harbor, Cuba in 1934.. California was the first of three sister ships built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia for the Panama Pacific Lines, a subsidiary of American Line Steamship Corporation which was a part of J. P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Company.