Arrived in San Francisco on the Barque Canton,
July 28, 1851
Cunard shipping family.
Nothing other than this arrival has been located on his visit to San Francisco. Presumably, given his background, he was here to scout out new routes for his shipping line.
It was with the birth of the Cunard Line in 1840 that a steamship company could promise to deliver its passengers to
their destinations on a regular timetable. Cunard's first four small steamers, all commissioned in 1840-41, had actually launched something completely new in ocean travel: constant, reliable service on a fixed departure schedule.
No one knew it then, but this pioneering company would outlast all its rivals and, in the process, establish an unmatched safety record. The tone was set by the operating instructions laid down by the company's founder, Samuel Cunard of Halifax, to his very first captain: "It will be very obvious to you that it is of the first importance to the Partners of the Britannia that she attains the Character for Speed and Safety." Safety would continue to be the firm's watchword.
Later in the century, an admiring Mark Twain would opine, "The Cunatrd people would not take Noah himself as first mate till they had worked him through all the lower grades and tried him ten years or such matter."
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Recommended Reading.
Books are available at Amazon.com . . . just click on a cover.
San Francisco: Port of Gold
William Martin Camp
An image of the cover of Port of Gold is not available. However, I have this book and it is a well-written history of San Francisco penned by a Berkeley author in 1947. It opens with a list of the Officers of the Society of California Pioneers. Some illustrations are included in the book.
The Annals of San Francisco by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, James Nisbet
Originally published 1855. Many illustrations.
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
Herbert Asbury
Asbury's history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849..."
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