Costa Rica (steamer)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 12.

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Costa Rica (steamer)

The coal fleet was further increased by the big tramp steamer Costa Rica, flying the Hawaiian flag. She was commanded by Captain Salmond and has been steadily engaged on the Nanaimo and San Francisco route since that time, with the exception of a few months in 1891, when she was sent north as a tender for the British warships in Bering Sea. She was extensively overhauled and supplied with new boilers by the Albion Iron Works of Victoria in 1894. Salmond was succeeded in command by Captain McIntyre. E. W. Wright, Large Increase in British Columbia's Inland and Ocean Steam Fleet, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd.,1961 [Wright originally wrote in 1895. Events in this chapter occurred in 1888.]., p.352.

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