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SS California: Shipping for Gold

by | Apr 18, 2018 | True West Blog

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The SS California was launched in May 1848.  It had been on the drawing boards for some time, and government subsidies helped make it possible.  It (and two other steamships were supposed to deliver mail and freight from the East Coast to California. But the discovery of gold in California changed that, and the emphasis focused on passengers.  The ship, after a four-month voyage, arrived in San


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