. The Argonaut . hoon arose, and the vessel was destroyedin a short space of time. The City of Tokiowas a sister ship to the City of Peking,which still plies between San Francisco andOriental ports. Another Pacific Mail Steamship Com-panys steamer, the Georgia, sank in October,1878, off Punta Arenas, Costa Rica. Thepassengers and crew were saved. The ves-sel, worth about $400,000, was a completeloss. The City of San Francisco is anothervessel that met disaster. On the morning ofMay 16, 1871, when approaching the Mexicanport of Acapulco, she struck a sunken reef,and sank in deep water within an
. The Argonaut . hoon arose, and the vessel was destroyedin a short space of time. The City of Tokiowas a sister ship to the City of Peking,which still plies between San Francisco andOriental ports. Another Pacific Mail Steamship Com-panys steamer, the Georgia, sank in October,1878, off Punta Arenas, Costa Rica. Thepassengers and crew were saved. The ves-sel, worth about $400,000, was a completeloss. The City of San Francisco is anothervessel that met disaster. On the morning ofMay 16, 1871, when approaching the Mexicanport of Acapulco, she struck a sunken reef,and sank in deep water within an hour. Thepassengers and crew were all saved. The Costa Rica was also lost by the Pa-cific Mail Steamship Company through date of her disaster was September 17,1873, as she was entering this harbor underfull steam during a fog. The passengerswere all saved, though with great difficulty. Other early losses of the Pacific MailSteamship Company were the Golden City,valued at $1,000,000. wrecked on February. Steamship Alameda on the rocks off Fort Point. hundred and thirty-one out of two hundredand eleven on board were drowned, is toofresh in peoples minds to require other thanmere mention. The vessel was entering theGolden Gate at four oclock in the morningthrough a heavy fog, and struck a rook a fewhundred feet from Fort Point, going downin less than fifteen minutes. The masterof the ship, Captain Ward, made no attemptto save himself, but went down with theship. His body was found months later. Theship itself sank in deep water, and its po-sition has never been determined, though in-numerable attempts so to do have been made. On the morning of January 22, 1903, thesteamship Walla Walla, bound from SanFrancisco to Seattle, with one hundred andforty-four souls on board, collided with thesailing ship Max, off Cape Mendocino, andsank in less than an hour. The steam-schooner Dispatch picked up rafts and boatscontaining sixty-two people, and other raftswent ashore. Only thirt
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