SS. Colorado counterstamped Morgan

IRCWCoins

I got this counterstamped Morgan the other day for $8.50. Has anyone heard of the SS. Colorado? It sounds like the name of a ship.

Leiana

Less than melt!

Google sez SS Colorado is a type of truck.

-Amanda

TorinoCobra71

Sounds like an ocean going type vessel.......

TorinoCobra71

Leiana

<< <i>Builder: William H. Webb, New York, 1863. Engine: Novelty Iron Works. Cost: $1 million. Owner: Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Launch: May 21, 1864. Wooden side-wheel steamer with 3 decks, 3 masts, round stern, 314 feet, 3,728 tons. She had 52 staterooms on the main deck and berths for 1500 in steerage.

The Colorado was the largest San Francisco-Panama route liner to ever ply the Pacific. In 1865 she was armed with two 20-pound field pieces on her quarters, two 30-pounders forward. She sailed from New York for San Francisco via Rio de Janeiro, Callao, and Panama on April 1, 1865. She was originally brig-rigged, but was altered in San Francisco in 1866 to enter the China service. At that time a mizzen-mast was added, and she was ship-rigged. In 1867 the Pacific Mail founded the first regular steamship service across the Pacific Ocean. The Colorado was retrofitted for the maiden voyage while Pacific Mail constructed four new ships specifically for that route. Those four ships were the China, Japan, Great Republic and America, and they were the largest and last of the great sidewheelers. In 1873 the first iron, screw steamer entered the trade and by 1879 the life of the trans-Pacific sidewheelers came to a close. In 1867, the Colorado became the first American liner to carry mail across the Pacific to the Orient, which helped pave the way for a rapid expansion of trade between California and the Orient. The Colorado was one of the ships that brought Chinese immigrants to San Francisco. In 1876 was laying in the stream with 800 Chinese in steerage. Soon after leaving Hong Kong four of the Chinese passengers were attacked with small-pox and left in the hospital at Yokohama. San Francisco's Quarantine Officer did not want to risk introducing small pox to the City. The steamer was anchored off Mission Bay, passengers unloaded, and she was inspected and fumigated. The Colorado was scrapped in 1879. >>



Found this... Doesn't make sense with the date of the Morgan.

-Amanda

Coxe

Is that a die crack or a coin scratch to the right of the first U of PLURIBUS?

IRCWCoins

<< <i>Is that a die crack or a coin scratch to the right of the first U of PLURIBUS? >>



It is a scratch.

tmot99

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<< <i>Is that a die crack or a coin scratch to the right of the first U of PLURIBUS? >>



It is a scratch. >>



It was not a pick; it was a scratch.