Passengers at the Port of San Francisco: 1800s

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SS Uncle Sam

Arrive San Francisco

December 21, 1854
SS Uncle Sam
Captain C. H. Baldwin
From San Juan del Sur

Passage

Daily Alta California, December 21, 1854, San Francisco

FROM THE ATLANTIC!
ARRIVAL OF THE UNCLE SAM
Seven Days Later
Interesting Domestic News
Exciting from the Seat of War.

The Nicaragua steamer Uncle Sam, Captain Baldwin, arrived this morning at 1-1/2 o'clock, 11 days from San Juan, bringing 500 passengers, and dates from the 27th November from New York and 29th from New Orleans. The Pursuer's report of the trip is as follows:

Memoranda

Left San Francisco Nov 24th at 4-1/2 p.m.; Dec 1st at 2 p.m. passed steamer Cortes bound to San Francisco; Dec 8th, arrivd at San Juan, making the run 10-1/2 days. Dec 9th at 10 a.m., left San Juan making the run 10-1/2 days. Dec 9th, at 1 a.m., left San Juan with 105 passengers from New Orleans per steamer Prometheus, and 400 passengers, 230 packages express goods, and 10 packages of mail matter from the Company's splendid steamship Northern Light, from New York, she having made the passage down in 7 days and 12 hours, and using only 3 of her 4 boilers.

The Isthmus of Nicaragua is in a splendid condition, and remarkably healthy. Passengers now come from ocean to oceans in 30 hours with the greatest ease.

Lake Lago Nicaragua Cocibolca Mar Dulce Granada

The Transit Company's new iron boat for the Lake had just arrived at San Juan del Norte, in fine condition. The Company have also added twenty new Troy coaches to the line over the macadamized road from San Juan to Virgin Bay, thus making it not only the best and quickest, but the only healthy route to the Atlantic States. The wharf at San Juan is now completed.

The passengers hence Oct 24, per steamer Sierra Nevada, arrived in New York in 20 days and 12 hours; the best time on record. The passengers per Uncle Sam will reach New York in 19-1/2 days.

Ccentral America by Dilbrado, 1862

Dec 12th, encountered a severe gale from the northwest in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, which lasted 48 hours and caused us considerable detention. Dec 14th, at 7 o'clock p.m., 250 miles southeast of Cape St. Lucas, passed and spoke steamship Sierra Nevada, bound to San Juan, all well on board. Dec 16th, at 3-1/1 p.m., passed Cape St. Lucas five miles distant, wind blowing fresh from northwest. Dec 18th, at 9 p.m., saw a large steamer steering south, supposed to be the John L. Stephens. Dec 20, arrived at San Francisco, having made the passage from San Juan in 11 days and from New York in 23 days 9 hours, the quickest time ever made over this or any other route.

Passengers

Daily Alta California, December 21, 1854