76:"The steam whistle was sounded on approaching, and the whole camp was soon assembled upon the river bank to receive us and witness the unique sight of a steamboat on the Sacramento. Such a greeting has seldom been witnessed. The blasts of the whistle and the yelling of the multitude ushered in a day of jollification, in which whisky was the fuel that kept up steam on shore long after the fires had gone out under the boilers of the little Pioneer."
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was launched and brought alongside the ship. Her boiler and machinery were then lowered into her from the ship and secured in place. On the 15th a trial run was successfully made. Although considered by the company to be too slow, she was loaded for a voyage up to
Sacramento, starting on the 17th
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was intended to run on the
Sacramento River, and was a side-wheeler, 70 feet in length, 25 feet beam, with an eight horse power engine that made "4 knots an hour, against wind and tide" and would normally carry forty passengers in her cabin and on her decks. In September, she made one trip to
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in 1847, was a sidewheel steamboat equipped with an engine and boiler brought out in pieces from
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List of steamboats on the
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Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 6, Number 875, 11 January 1854, p.2, col.5
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When she arrived at
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The Boston and
California Mining and Trading Joint Stock Company
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List of steamboats and steam ferries on San
Francisco Bay
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for $ 6,000, for service between
Sacramento and the
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799:List of steamboats on the Colorado River
140:Cape Horn And Cooperative Mining in '49
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84:Sacramento and back, then was sold to
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941:Passenger ships of the United States
946:Merchant ships of the United States
589:California Steam Navigation Company
584:Aspinwall Steam Transportation Line
96:soon after met its end, holed by a
936:Sidewheel steamboats of California
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609:Simmons, Hutchinson & Company
86:Simmons, Hutchinson & Company
885:Columbia River (Wenatchee Reach)
599:George A. Johnson & Company
604:Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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509:Ferries of San Francisco Bay
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818:Steamboats in other areas
23:in California, after the
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185:Steamboats of California
666:Benjamin M. Hartshorne
840:Yaquina Bay and river
727:Patrick Henry Tiernan
951:California Gold Rush
676:William Leidesdorff
654:Owners and captains
900:Upper Fraser River
369:(inland steamboat)
222:City of Sacramento
192:Particular vessels
138:Farwell, William,
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671:George A. Johnson
645:San Joaquin River
635:San Francisco Bay
19:one of the first
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792:Lists of vessels
783:Yerba Buena Cove
778:Union Iron Works
748:North's Shipyard
707:Domingo Marcucci
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855:Puget Sound
717:Henry Owens
278:Delta Queen
257:Chrysopolis
144:The Century
931:1849 ships
920:Categories
477:Washington
443:San Rafael
437:Sacramento
375:Ocean Wave
299:El Primero
271:Delta King
236:Black Hawk
108:References
90:Yuba River
39:West Point
21:steamboats
736:Shipyards
463:Telephone
410:New World
382:Magdalena
361:Jack Hays
320:Georgiana
292:El Dorado
52:owned by
700:Builders
539:Piedmont
498:Yosemite
470:Wallamet
355:Issaquah
334:Hartford
229:Bayocean
207:Antelope
560:Transit
532:Oakland
518:Clinton
451:Senator
431:Rosalie
424:Rabboni
417:Pioneer
403:Monarch
367:Klamath
243:Capital
216:(yacht)
94:Pioneer
81:Pioneer
62:Pioneer
43:Benicia
17:Pioneer
546:Solano
484:Washoe
348:Ilwaco
327:Goliah
285:Eureka
214:Aquilo
31:Boston
567:Ukiah
457:Sitka
389:McKim
41:, at
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396:Mint
98:snag
48:The
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