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SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, was a 280-foot (85 m) sidewheel steamer that operated between Central America and the East Coast of the United States during the 1850s.
27 mar 2022 · For the passengers of the ill-fated vessel, it's believed that a category 2 hurricane sank the ship as it travelled from Panama towards New York City.
The Journey of the S.S. Central America Passengers. On August 20, 1857, several hundred passengers boarded the S. S. Sonora, of the Pacific Mail Steamship Line, and left San Francisco headed south toward Panama City.
The Central America foundered on the 12 th inst., and only sixty of a list of five hundred and twenty-five passengers, and her officers and crew, have been saved. We received the melancholy news by telegraph at a late hour last evening.
The Central America was a compromise design built to retain sail capabilities while depending for primary power on her steam engines driving the paddle wheels. With a length of 272 feet, a 40-foot beam, and a 32-foot depth, the ship was primarily designed as a passenger carrier.
1 gru 2022 · Most of the passengers boarded the S.S. Central America in Panama after traveling from San Francisco on another ship and taking the train across the isthmus. Some 425 lives were lost and 153...
2 sty 2015 · The 280-foot side-wheel steamer SS Central America was loaded with newly cast gold bars and coins from mints in San Francisco. It’s route to New York was a regular one. The gold shipment and hundreds of passengers boarded the vessel in San Francisco bound for the west coast of Panama.
