santacruzincompleteSanta Cruz
The Santa Cruz ran from California to British Columbia and Vancouver Island. In 1861,
the ship was loaned to the U.S. government, was fitted out as a revenue cutter, and
renamed the General Sumner. The government sold it for $40,000, whereupon the owners
sold it again in China for $81,000; it was destroyed by fire on the Yangtze River
in 1862.12
- 1. Colonist, 19 April and 9 May 1862.
- 2. Wright, E. W. 1961. Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. pp. 69, 100
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