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The SS City of Chester was a steamship built in 1875 that sank after a collision in a dense fog with SS Oceanic at the Golden Gate in San Francisco Bay on August 22, 1888. She was owned by the Oregon Railroad Co. and leased by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company .
Sold in 1961 to Hanover Steamship Corp. and renamed Ocean Leader. Operated under the management of Jason Steamship Co. Management transferred to Norland Shipping & Trading Co. in 1963, then Ocean Freighting & Brokerage Corp. in 1965. [2] Scrapped at Onomichi in November 1969. [48]
RMS City of Chester was a British passenger steamship that sailed on the transatlantic route from 1873 to 1898. The ship was built by Caird & Company of Greenock for the Inman Line. At 4,566 tons she became the largest passenger ship afloat when launched on 29 March 1873 – a title she held until the 5,000-ton Britannic was launched in ...
Around 2.9 million passengers used the Steamship Authority ferry service in 2022, according to an annual report. ... rudders, an anchor windlass and a whole new stern section. He said the total ...
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company was an important early shipping company that operated steamships on the west coast of North America. It was first organized in 1867 under the name Goodall, Nelson and Perkins. The Goodall, Nelson & Perkins Steamship Company was formed in 1875, but a year later was reorganized as the Pacific Coast Steamship ...
A federal district court judge has blocked another effort by 11 employees of the Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority to be exempt from the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine ...
Initial news reports criticized the Chinese crew of the Oceanic, but they were later praised after their bravery in rescuing many passengers from the City of Chester became known. In May 2013 a NOAA crew surveying another nearby shipwreck extended their survey to try to find the City of Chester and discovered it "sitting upright, shrouded in ...
States Line operated four subsidies: Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company, California Eastern Line founded in 1937 for lumber shipping, Oregon Oriental Line and the Quaker Line. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Charles Dant was a major stock holder in the China Import and Export Lumber Company , which had a large sawmill plant in Shanghai .