The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Santa 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. E. W. Wright, ed., Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Portland: The Lewis & Dryden Printing Company, 1895), 69, 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0222484