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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ernment, the Pacific Company real-izing a profit of about $100,000 in the transaction. Later, an exact duplicate of the one sold to the RussianGovernment was built by Cramp & Sons and sent to thePacific Coast for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. Two more iron propellers were subsequently built forthe company. One of these was the Santa Rosa, built byJohn Roach & Sons in 1884 at a cost of $600,000. Othersteamers were added to the fleet by purchase, in order tomake good some further losses and others that had beenordered to be broken up. In September, 1887, the fleet controlled by and in theservice of the company consisted of eighteen steamers.These were all classed as propellers, and five of them wereconstructed of iron. All but three were owned outright. The iron propellers owned by the company were theQueen of the Pacific, State of California and Santa Rosa,all first class and registering 1,200 to 1,600 tons. Thoseunder charter were the iron propellers City of Chester and
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The Niagara (ship) of the Standard Oil Company - San Franciscos Ocean Trade—Past and Future 125 George W. Elder and the wooden propellor Mexico. Thelittle steamer Salinas was one of the fleet, and was doinggood service. Eleven of the steamers controlled by the Pacific CoastSteamship Company in 1887 were of comparatively smallcarrying capacity, registering from 100 to 800 tons, allwooden propellers. There were also two other wooden pro-pellers in the list, of 1,200 and 1,300 tons, respectively. Allof these wooden vessels have since been lost or otherwisedisposed of. One of the iron propellers in the list was the City ofChester, 800 tons, which was subsequently lost in collision.The other one was the George W. Elder, 1,200 tons, whichis still in service, as are also the other three iron propellersin the list of 1887, except the Santa Rosa, together witha dozen others. Despite all the varied opposition steam lines that havebeen placed in the domestic Pacific service in the lastquarter of a century, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company

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