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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rst trip of the California was made in 28 days,while the three subsequent ones in the same year were made in 22 to 23 days. The Oregon made her four runs up in 20 to 21 days. The first trip of the Panama was covered in 17 days and the other two in 20 to 21 days. The steamers McKim and Senator were sent out here on speculation. The former was a small boat and a slow sailer, and was about 30 days on the trip. The Senator came up in 21 days. The Unicorn was formerly in the Atlantic trade, a British steamer in the Cunard line, and was chartered by the Pacific Mail Company for service between Panama and San Francisco. She was 650 tons register, and though much smaller than those in the employ of the company, had more cabin room and was therefore better adapted to the passenger traffic. Subsequently added passenger accommodations were placed on the hurricane decks of the three steamers owned by the company. The Unicorn was brought into port by Captain Lapidge, and had a long run of 35 days from Panama.
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IMAGE: SS Siberia (1901) and/or SS Siberia Maru (1901) cre a. £oO co San Franciscos Ocean Trade —Past and Future 29 Fate of First Three Steamers. It must be said to the credit of the builders of the first three steamers for the Pacific Mail Company, as well as to those in charge of the same during their service in the Panama trade, that none of them came to an untimely end,nor did they ever meet with a serious disaster. The steamer Panama was the first to retire from service.Her machinery was removed in 1865, and the hulk was sentto Central America for storage purposes in connection with the coffee trade. The steamer Oregon was sold in 1869 to a local lumber firm, her machinery removed, and she was then converted into a bark bearing the same name, in which capacity she did service for several years in the lumber carrying trade between Puget Sound and this port, and it was while employed in that trade that she was wrecked. The steamer California made her last trip as a steamer from San Diego, arriving here November 17, 1875. Soon afterwards her ma

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