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Aspinwall Steam Transportation Line was an early steamboat line during the California Gold Rush.
The Aspinwall Line added the El Dorado running to Sacramento and the Sacramento running to San Jose, both twice weekly.[1]
El Dorado 153 tons [2]: 201 [3]: 42, 43 [4] : 133, 135 133 PHOTO; Built in 1850 as CARIBBEAN by Thomas Collver, purchased by Aspenwall and renamed EL DORADO, 1850-1857, P.135 "Ordered by Captain J. W. Wright and originally named CARIBBEAN, she was sold while still on the stocks to Howland & Aspinwall, who were building up a fleet of steamers on the Atlantic ..."[5] [6] "Succeeding her on the Stockton run was the El Dorado, with Captain Warren having relinquished the command on the former for the latter. Faced with the sobering fact of a mushrooming fleet of steamers on all the rivers, the Aspinwall Line ..." p.469-478 The Schooner/Steamer El Dorado [7] Towboat 6/1851[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Daily Alta California, Volume 1, Number 52, 28 February 1850, P.1, Col. 3
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MacMullenwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Erik Heyl, Early American Steamers - Volume 1, Erik Heyl, 1953
- ^ Charles R. Schultz, Forty-niners 'round the Horn: 336 The 1849 California Gold Rush Fleet: The Schooner/Steamer El Dorado, Southern California Quarterly 68, (Spring 1986), 67-76. Account of the voyage from Philadelphia to San Francisco, May 7 - November 23, 1849, under the command Capt. Joseph C. Barnard. Includes drawings of the vessel as a schooner as she sailed from Philadelphia and as a sidewheel steamer to which she was converted soon after her arrival in San Francisco. Passengers included the El Dorado Association.
- ^ John Bartlett Goodman, The California Gold Rush Fleet: Vessels Sailing from the East Coast of the United States and Canada for San Francisco December 7, 1848-December 31, 1849, Together with Their Gold Rush Voyage and a Maritime Cameo Biography of Each Vessel, J.B. Goodman, 1986
- ^ Admeasurement, Steam Boat El-Dorado of Philadelphia by Thomas Young, edition published in 1849 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide. Admeasurements of Steamboat El Dorado, built in Wilmington, Del. by Thomas Young for Geo. W. Aspinwall, Esq. of Philadelphia. Gives length, breadth, depth, tonnage and rigging details. One sheet signed by Young, ship carpenter; one sheet calculations only, unsigned; and one sheet signed by Jacob B. Vandever, measurer of vessels at the port of Wilmington
- ^ Daily Alta California, Volume 2, Number 181, 9 June 1851, P1C2 SAN FRANCISCO TOWBOAT COMPANY. Steamer EL DORADO; steam tug FIREFLY, steam tug REDDING. Ship, towed to the heads at all times or to any part of the bay and harbor. Orders left at the office of JAMES BLAIR, Agent, Corner Sacramento and Front sts.
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