Identifier: sanfranciscosoce01wrig (find matches)
Title: San Francisco's ocean trade, past and future; a story of the deep water service of San Francisco, 1848 to 1911. Effect the Panama canal will have upon it
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wright, Benjamin Cooper
Subjects: Shipping
Publisher: San Francisco, A. Carlisle & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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reign supply ports,exclusive of regular steam lines, representing 817,900 tons of registered tonnage, an increase of 130,800 tons over 1895. Most of this increase was ballast tonnage, including many tramp steamers, and most of it was chartered to arrive at rates varying from 25s to 31s 6d. Ballast tonnage that arrives under promise of an outward cargo is quite different from ballast tonnage that comes seeking. It was the satisfactory freight rates that led these ballast ships to this port in 1896. There were 50 wheat charters reported at this port in September, 1896, the largest number for any month in two years. There were 69 more in October, 56 in November and 26 in December. Some of these vessels were for Portland and Tacoma loading. In subsequent years, several ballast ships have arrived,particularly in 1902, but generally under the same conditions as in 1896. Perhaps one of the most notable instances of vessels leaving San Francisco in ballast because of failure to secure cargo was in 1903.
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IMAGE: The Union Iron Works' large dock at Hunter's Point, emptied of water, with the USS Milwaukee inside, shows how big vessels can be docked here. - San Franciscos Ocean Trade—Past and Future 173 That was a very hard year for owners of ships, and in the fall 15 vessels of 28,000 tons of registered tonnage left this port in ballast for Australia to take cargoes of wool and ores to Europe. As 12 of these ships, registering 22,000 tons, were under the French flag, they received the same subsidy in ballast as they would have been paid if they had left with cargoes. Occasionally a vessel under the French flag has nearly circled the world in ballast. Sources of Sail Tonnage. San Francisco has drawn most of its sail tonnage directly or indirectly from domestic Atlantic ports and Europe. Of late years steamers have cut out domestic Atlantic ports. The sail tonnage from Europe has been one-third larger than from any other source, while the sail tonnage from Australasia has been two-thirds as large as that from Europe. As a matter of fact, nearly all the sail tonnage in the foreign trade has come from Europe directly or by way of Australasia, South A

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