| America | - Gordon Speck. Northwest explorations, P. 115-119. |
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| America | - Fiturehead of the America os on the Moran Estate on Orcard Island. It was there in 1932. Gibbs, Jim. Pacific Square Riggers. Seattle: Superior, 1969., p. 123. Gibbs, Jim. Pacific Square Riggers. Seattle: Superior, 1969., p. 127. |
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| America | (Barge) - Wrecked while being towed by the tug Lorne in 1914 in the San Juan Islands. She was built in 1874 and was an American semi-clipper ship. Gibbs, Jim. Pacific Square Riggers. Seattle: Superior, 1969., p. 34. |
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| America | (Frigate) - Francis N. Blanchet. Notices and Voyages, 1838-1847., p. 241. |
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| America | (HMS Frigate) - In 1845 Captain Hon. J. Gordon took H. M. frigate America from Mexico to Puget Sound and sent two officers overland via Nisqually to Fort Vancouver to report further on the Oregon problem and to see to the security of the British settlers. Frederick Victor Longstaff, Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its Work and Its Defenses. Vancouver, B.C.: Clarke & Stuart Co. Ltd. 1942., p.11. |
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| America | (Motor Vessel) - Edward M. Brady. Tugs, towboats and towing., p. 118. |
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| America | (Steamboat) - Louis C. Hunter. . Steamboats on the western rivers. Cambridge: Harvard University, p. 81,228,608,611. |
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| America | (Steamer) - The 97-ton propeller passenger steamer America, 105 feet in length with a beam of 18. 5 and 1 00 - horsepower engine, was built by Herbert Holman at Portland for the America Transportation Co., operating on the Portland-Astoria run. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 204. |
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| America (2) | The "America" of 1881 was built by C.Mitchell & Co, Walker-on-Tyne for the Carr Line of Hamburg. She was a 2,118 gross ton ship, length 298.4ft x beam 36ft, one funnel, two masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. There was accommodation for 800-3rd class passengers. Launched on 28/6/1881, she sailed on her maiden voyage from Hamburg to New York on 1/9/1881. She commenced her third and last voyage when she left Hamburg on 1/1/1882, sailed from New York on 1/2/1882 and went missing with the loss of 34 lives. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.3, p.1073] |
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| America (3) | (of 1901) See BRITANNIA (3). |
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| America (4) | (of 1917) See AMERIKA (2). |
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| America (5) | There is a site on the SS America under her later name of "Australis".. It gives a detailed history, photos and several links to other sites. Brief specifications are - 26,454 gross tons, length overall 723ft x beam 93.5ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 22 knots. Accommodation for 516-1st, 371-cabin and 159-tourist class passengers. Built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Launched 31/8/1939, maiden voyage 10/8/1940 New York - Caribbean Cruise. 1941 renamed "West Point" (US troopship). 1946 renamed "America" and sailed New York - Cobh - Southampton - Havre (later Cherbourg). 1964 sold to Chandris Line (Panama) and renamed "Australis". 1976 transferred to Greek flag. 1978 went to Venture Cruise Line, New York and renamed "America". August 1978 repurchased by Chandris Line, renamed "Italis". Forward funnel removed. Final details are found atthe above web site. - |
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| America.hms | - British Naval Vessel. Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American , Clinton. History of WashingtonW II, 287. Morgan, Puget's Sound, p. 64,66. Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American , II, p. 287. |
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| American | (Containership. 963 feet) - U.S. Lines ships tied up in Tacoma, Marine Digest January 17, 1987, p. 26. |
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| American Banker | See AROSA KULM. |
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| American Boy | (Schooner) - Two masted schooner of 183 tons built at Seabeck, Washington by Hiram Doncaster in 1882. Her first owner is listed as William Smith and from 1888 S.H. Harmon, both of San Francisco. She is last recorded in 1890. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. February 15, 1941. , p. 2. |
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| American Girl | (Motor Ship) - 1944. 261 gross tons. 94.1 feet #246236. Western Boat Building, Astoria. Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1945, p. 107. |
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| American Girl | (Schooner) - American schooner, two-masted, later converted to three masted, 225 tons, was lost supposedly off the West Coast of Vancouver Island, disappearing with all hands on a voyage from San Francisco to Port Gamble with an 8-man crew. Owned by Albert Rowe of San Francisco. Parts of the wreck were reported to have been cast up on the beach at Cape St. James in the Queen Charlotte Islands.Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968. |
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| American Girl | (Schooner) - The wreckage of an American three -masted schooner was found in May by the fishing steamer New England in a small, unfrequented cove seventy miles north of Cape St. James on the eastern shore of Moresby Island of the Queen Charlottes. The wreckage was presumed to be that of the schooner American Girl, last seen during the heavy storms of the previous November being driven out to sea while on a voyage from San Francisco for Port Gamble for a cargo of lumber. There was no sign of the eight-man crew and it is probable they were drowned at sea. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1900, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 64. |
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| American Mail | - Marine Memories, the SS American Mail, Marine Digest. (April 6, 1985), Americna Mail, originally christened SEA ADDER when built by the Western Pipe and Steel Company in San Francisco. Purchased and renamed by the American Mail Lines in 1946. Later sold in 1969 and renamed Citrus Packer and scrapped seven years later. (il). |
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| American Mail | (Steamer) - Another violent mystery of the sea occurred aboard the steamship American Mail late in July as she was in mid-Pacific, en route from Japan to British Columbia and Puget Sound. The body of George E. Smith, 27, a waiter, was found bludgeoned to death with a fire axe in his bunk. Although the FBI investigated the murder when the ship reached Seattle, it has never been determined which of the crew or 12 passengers committed the crime. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1971, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.108. |
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| American Rose | - Built in Tacoma in 1937 for Guiseppe Rappa of San Francisco. 98 gross tons. 71.3 feet #238101. Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1945, p. 17. |
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| Americana | (Barkentine) - Capt. 0. B. (All Hands and Feet) Lindholm, had recently been given command of the steel barkentine Americana, a Scottish-built 900-ton vessel, purchased by C. A. Hooper from Hawaiian owners. On her first voyage for Hooper she had been 198 days from Iquique to San Francisco and was posted missing, her master claiming she would not do better than three knots close-hauled. After changing her rig slightly, Capt. Lindholm raced the China clippers Collingwood and City of Hankow from Eureka to Sydney, N. S. W., making the passage in 53 days and beating them both. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1901, H.W. McCurdy, Marine HIstory of the Pacific Northwest, p. 67. |
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| Americana | (Schooner) - February 28, 1918 Schooner of 900 tons, built in 1892. Foundered at the mouth of the Columbia. 13 dead. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Cape Falcon to Cape Disappointment, Oregon Shipwrecks. 1984, p. 127-34. |
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| Americana | (Schooner) - Nine hundred ton vessel lost at Seat after clearing the Columbia bar in February of 1913. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 155. |
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| Americano | - Built in tacoma in 1944 for Donald S. Morgan of Astoria. 164 gross tons. 80.7 feet. #246106. Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1945, p. 107. |
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| Central America | Kautz, August V. Nothing worthy of note transpired today, p. 110. Ship reported lost. His papers probably went down with her. p. 122. |
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| Enterprise (american Vessel) | At St. Paul in 1800, Buell and Skladal. Sea Otters and the China Trade., p. 131, 135-37. To Baja. Buell and Skladal. Sea Otters and the China Trade., p. 137. Joseph O'Cain, first mate, Buell and Skladal. Sea Otters and the China Trade., p. 131. |
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| Fair America | Seized by the Spanish. Edgar I Stewart, Washington, Northwest Frontier., I, p. 102. Derek Pethick. First approaches to the Northest Coast., p. 131, 161, 162, 164. |
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| General Warren (american Steamer) | 309 ton vessel. Aground on Clatsop Spit, January 28, 1952. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p.167. Herbert H. Bancroft, History of Oregon., II, p. 203-04, 341. Arthur Throckmorton, Oregon Argonauts, merchant adventurers on the western front, p. 136,138. |
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| Nord America | The "Nord America" was built in 1882 by J.Elder & Co, Glasgow as the "Stirling Castle" for Thos Skinner & Co, London. She was a 4,826 gross ton ship, length 418.6ft x beam 50ft, two funnels, three masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 15 knots when built. Launched on 21/1/1882, she was used on the tea trade from China and was world famous for her rapid voyages. Purchased by the Italian company, La Veloce in 1883, she was fitted with accommodation for 90-1st, 100-2nd and 1,223-3rd class passengers and renamed "Nord America" but, due to her fame, was allowed to retain her original name as well. She commenced her first voyage from Genoa to South America on 13/11/1883 and in 1884 was named "Nord America" only. In 1885 she was chartered by the British government for carriage of troops to Suakin, Sudan and in 1899 was chartered to the Russian government and used as a troopship between Odessa and Vladivostock in connection with the Boxer rebellion in China. Rebuilt by Palmers Co Ltd in 1900, re-engined with less powerful engines to give a speed of 13.5knots, accommodation altered to carry 90-2nd and 1,223-3rd class only, funnels lengthened and her three masts reduced to two. On 27/5/1901 she started her first voyage between Palermo, Naples and New York and commenced her last passenger round voyage from Genoa to Naples and New York on 25/3/1908 (58 round voyages). In December 1908 she was used as an accommodation ship for survivors of the earthquake at Messina. She was then employed solely as a cargo steamer, and on 5/12/1910 while on passage from Buenos Aires with a cargo of horses, she ran aground on the Moroccan coast. She was refloated and towed to Genoa, laid up and was scrapped in 1911. [North Atlantic Seaway, vol.3, p.1264-1271, by N.R.P. Bonsor] [South Atlantic Seaway, p.278-279, by N.R.P. Bonsor] - |
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| North America (1) | The NORTH AMERICA was a wooden side-wheel steamer, built by Lawrence & Sneeden, New York, and launched on 14 September 1850. 1,440 20/95 tons; 260' 6" x 33' 9" x 20' 6" (length x beam x depth of hold); 2 decks, 4 masts, round stern, no head; engine built by Morgan Iron Works, diameter of cylinder 5', length of stroke 12'. At the time of her launching the NORTH AMERICA was said to be intended for the San Francisco-Panama service, but as late as February 1851 she was owned by the Norwich and New London Steamboat Company, and between February and June 1851 she operated between New York and Chagres. She sailed from New York on 24 June 1851, arriving at San Francisco, via Panama, on 2 October. She ran for the Vanderbilt Independent Line between San Francisco and San Juan del Sur, and was wrecked on 27 February 1852, 30 miles south of Acapulco, northbound [John Haskell Kemble, The Panama Route, 1848-1869, University of California Publications in History, 29 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943), p. 237]. I have no reference to a picture of the NORTH AMERICA, and in view of her very short career it is possible that none exists. However, for a definitive answer, contact the J. Porter Shaw Library, San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, Fort Mason, Bldg E, San Francisco, CA 94123. - |
| Citation: [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer 21 March 1998] |
| North America (2) | The bark North America was built by the shipyard B.H. Steenken at Brake, Germany in 1856. She was launched on August 3, 1856 for the Bremen Company of William Stisser & Company. The ship measured 134.9' length, 29 feet bredth, 15.1 feet draft. 478 Tons, Oak hull coppered in 1857. She was rated A 1 1/2. This meant she was rated for all kinds of cargo on all voyages. In 1867 she was sold to J. Stephansen of Arendal, Norway where she sailed as Nord Amerika. sometimes written as two words sometimes one. The vessel was wrecked near Buenos Aires in Argentina in October of 1887. - [E-mail from Joe Keogh - 20 April 1998] |
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| North America (crab Boat) | This company also completed the 15th in its series of 108-foot, 199-ton Alaska crab boats, the North America, for Seattle owners who operate her in Alaska waters for the New England Fish Co. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1975, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.188. |
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| North West America | Launching of the North West America, 1788, MNC,p. 23. Philip H. Parrish. Before the Covered Wagon, p. 92. SOA, p. 15-16. BNG, p. 4. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 5. LH, I, p. 366. LC, p. 63 GB, 1938, p. 64. JE, p. 22. Thomas Vaughan. The Western Shore. Oregon Country Essays.,p. 71. Clinton Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American State . History of Washington., 115-110. First ship built by Europeans on the Northwest Coast. Launched on September 19, 1788 at Nootka. Clarence A. Vandiveer. The fur trade and early western exploration, p. 144. Meany, Edmond S. Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound. p. 30. Henry R. Wagner. Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan De Fuca, p. 4, 9, 65, 141. E. T. Short, After Many Years, The Tacoma Times. November 21, 1934. Seized by Spanish and renamed Santa Gertrudis, Buell and Skladal. Sea Otters and the China Trade., p. 84. LLOG, p. 29-37. Edgar I Stewart, Washington, Northwest Frontier., I, p. 95. 98. 101. |
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| Pan America | S.S.PAN AMERICA was launched June 4,1921 as S.S. Palmetto State. Builder: Bethlehem Ship Building Corp Sparrows Point, Maryland. Owned by: U.S.Shipping Board, Baltimore, Md. Yard Number 4196. Gross Tons 13,712. 535'x65.6' feet. Twin Screw. Steam geared turbines. Speed 17 to 19 knots. Passengers 260 lst 300 3rd class. Crew 203. 1922 completed and renamed S.S. Pan America. Operated by the Munson Steamship Co. Most likely operated on the New York to East Coast of South America route and maybe also on the New York to German North Sea Ports. 1926 Munson Line bought the vessel from the U.S. Shipping Board. 1938 due to financial problems Munson Line sold the vessel back to the U.S.S.B. Feb. 1939 vessel taken over bt the U.S. Army Transportation Service and operaated as the U.s.a.t. Hunter Ligget. June 1941 vessel operated as a U.S. Navy Transport . March 1946 again operated as a U.S.Army Transport and then shortly afterwards returned to the U.S. Maritime Commission. And then shortly afterwards laid up. 1948 Broken up at Boston Metals in Baltimore. Md This vessel was also known as a 535 Class (535 feet). This company also operated the S.S. American Legion, S.S. Western World as passenger ships. And they had several freighters in operations from the US East Coast, Cuba and U.S. Gulf Coast. - |
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| Sud America | See MENTANA. |
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| Sud Americano | See VANCOUVER ISLAND. |
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| Tanner (american Brig) | Grounded near Portland Ageles. Later refloated. Built in 1855. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 58. Brought first Mercer Girls to Seattle. BNG, p. 196. |
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| Young America (steamer) | The propeller Young America, length eighty-eight feet, beam thirteen feet, depth four feet five inches, with engines eleven and one-fourth by ten inches, was launched at Portland and has since been operated in the towing and jobbing trade by Capt. James Good. E. W. Wright, Retirement of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company from Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Puget Sound. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and the years covered in this chapter are 1891 and 1892., p.401. |
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