D. E.
Griffith, mate and master, was born in New Jersey in 1843 and enlisted
in the United States Navy during the Civil War, at the close of which
he went into the deep-water trade. In 1868 he visited San Francisco as
quartermaster on the steamship Nebraska, afterward occupying
similar positions on the lgonlana, Sacramenlo and Colorado,
and subsequently served as third and second officers on these steamers.
He was first officer with Captain Seabury on the City of Panama,
and ran north on the Dakota for about two years, commanding the
steamship for a few trips during the absence of Captain Morse.
With the exception of an interval from 1886 to 1891, he was in continuous
service on the Pacific Coast for twenty-seven years, and was first officer
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamship Colima when
she foundered off Manzanillo, Mexico, May 27, 1895, going down with the
ship, in which catastrophe 187 people lost their lives.
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