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    SS Pacific was a wooden-hulled, sidewheel steamer built in 1849 for transatlantic service with the American Collins Line. Designed to outclass their chief...
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  • SS Pacific was the name of a number of steamships, including: SS Pacific (1849) SS Pacific (1850) SS Pacific (1880) SS Pacific (1914) MS Pacific This article...
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  • countries SS Pacific (1849), a Collins Line transatlantic sidewheel steamship that sank off the coast of Wales in 1856 SS Pacific (1850), an ocean liner...
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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...
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    in the Pacific Mail steamship SS Oregon with a knocked-down steamboat in its hold. He started a shipyard in San Francisco on September 18, 1849, on the...
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  • cruise ships Timeline of largest passenger ships "Cunard Steamship Fleet, 1849". nshdpi.ca. Retrieved January 6, 2024. "Queen Mary 2 Curtails Cruise Due...
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    anachronism when it entered service in 1862. Side-lever engine of SS Pacific (1849) Side-lever engine of RMS Persia (1855) Model of the twin side-lever...
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    Ezra Nye, was the name of a steamship captain of the Collins Line, SS Pacific (1849), who died in 1866 of Newark, New Jersey. She was known as pilot-boat...
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    off their lands by the gold-seekers, called "forty-niners" (referring to 1849, the peak year for Gold Rush immigration). Outside of California, the first...
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    SS Pacific was a wooden sidewheel steamer built in 1850 most notable for its sinking in 1875 as a result of a collision southwest of Cape Flattery, Washington...
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    California. The company had the SS Ohio and the SS Georgia built in 1848, and with the purchased SS Falcon in early 1849 carried the first passengers by...
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    1932 SS Hakozaki Maru SS Terukuni Maru SS Haruna Maru SS Katori Maru SS Yasukuni Maru SS Hakone Maru SS Fushimi Maru SS Kaisar-I-Hind SS Chitral SS Ranpura...
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  • March 1849. Nautilus, a brig of 60 tons (bm) that under the command of Captain Charles Bishop between 1796 and 1799 sailed in the South Pacific. Bishop...
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    and Pacific routes to establish regularly scheduled journeys. Other steamships soon followed, and by late 1849, paddle wheel steamships like the SS McKim...
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    Worldpress Blog. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2017. Shipwrecks - SS Milwaukee "Shipwrecks". Retrieved 4 April 2011. "Chequamegon". Historical...
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    Union Iron Works (category Manufacturing companies established in 1849)
    Union Brass & Iron Works in the south of Market area of San Francisco in 1849. It was later run by his son, James Donohue. After years as the premiere...
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    shipping services across the Pacific to Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Micronesia, the South Pacific, China, and Japan. William Matson (1849–1917) founded Matson Navigation...
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  • paddle steamers soon followed on both the Pacific and Atlantic routes. By late 1849 paddle steamers like the SS McKim were carrying miners and businessmen...
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    California. The first steamship used on the Pacific run was the $200,000 three-mast, dual-paddle steamer SS California. It was 203 feet (62 m) in length...
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    Pope & Talbot, Inc. (category American companies established in 1849)
    SS Saginaw Victory SS Brainerd Victory Cyrus Walker 1864 Tug Goliah 1849 Tug SS Saginaw Victory USS Sitka (APA-113) Liberty ships operated: George A...
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    1840s (redirect from 1840–1849)
    Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1840, and ended on December 31, 1849. The decade was noted in Europe for featuring the largely unsuccessful Revolutions...
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  • boats of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. 1849: SS Pacific 1855: SS Niagara 1856: SS Adriatic for Collins Line. (April 7, 1856).S.S. Adriatic. 1857:...
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    Official report of Capt. S. Robinson, R.N.R.,: Commander of the Canadian Pacific S.S. "Empress of Australia", on the Japanese earthquake, the fire and subsequent...
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  • Wilkes Expedition, Cartographer of San Francisco Bay and was Captain of the SS Winfield Scott when it shipwrecked off Anacapa Island in 1853. Two geographic...
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    Scottish politician (28 April 1849) "Take courage, Charlotte; take courage." — Anne Brontë, English novelist (28 May 1849), to her sister Charlotte "I...
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    RMS Unicorn (redirect from SS Unicorn)
    Cunard in January 1849, given to his son in February, and sold in October 1849. From 1849 to 1853, she operated under the Pacific Mail Steamship Co....
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  • 1838 to the Present Day. John De Graff. pp. 52–92. "Cunard Steamship Fleet, 1849". nshdpi.ca. Retrieved 2023-11-05. Wills, Elspeth (2010). The Fleet 1840–2010...
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    either side of the lake. The ice-breaking train ferry SS Baikal built in 1897 and smaller ferry SS Angara built in about 1900 made the four-hour crossing...
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    M. H. de Young (category 1849 births)
    Michael Henry de Young (September 30, 1849 – February 15, 1925) was an American journalist and businessman. De Young was born in St. Louis, Missouri. The...
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  • and Wolff for White Star serving trans-Pacific routes, chartered by O&O Line, SS&A Line in 1884. Sold to Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1906 under Persia...
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