saratogaSaratoga
The wooden sidewheel steamer saratogaCortes, originally christened the saratogaSaratoga, was 67 m long.1 It was built in New York in 1852, for Davis Brooks and Company, for $198,000.2 It sailed for San Francisco on 10 July 1852 and operated between San Francisco and
Panama for the New York and San Francisco Steamship Line until the following summer,
when it was purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt, who ran it between San Francisco and
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, until March 1855.3
In 1858 and 1859, it sailed between San Francisco and Panama, for the New York and
California Steamship Company, and in 1860 for the Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Company.4 The Pacific Mail Steamship Company purchased it in 1860 and kept it on the Panama
route until February 1861, when it sold it to Flint and Holladay, who chartered it
to China in 1862, where it remained until 1865, when it burned at Shanghai.5
- 1. John Haskell Kemble, The Panama Route, 1848-1869 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943), 222.
- 2. Ibid.
- 3. Ibid.
- 4. Ibid.
- 5. Ibid.
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