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26-675: SS Panama may relate to the following ships; SS  Panama  (1848) , was a ship of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company . SS  Panama  (1875) , a British-built ship captured by the United States while in Spanish service during the Spanish-American War and wrecked in 1899. SS  Panama  (1881) , was a British ship that

52-801: A seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia vacated by Judge Peter Vivian Daniel . He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 2, 1841, and received his commission on March 3, 1841. His service terminated on March 23, 1844, due to his resignation. Mason was appointed the 16th United States Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President John Tyler and served from March 14, 1844, to March 10, 1845, and again as

78-733: A second objective: the establishment of civilian steamships which could be easily converted to warships or privateers during times of war. Thus the 1845 federal enabling legislation vested authority of mail contracts with the Secretary of the US Navy . His dual mandate was letting federal mail contracts and overseeing the construction of the steamers to ensure that they would be suitable for conversion to warships. In accordance to Polk’s aggressive program for developing Oregon, Congress passed more specific laws in for mail subsidies early in 1847. The new laws approved funding for four naval steamers, directed

104-577: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Pacific Mail Steamship Company The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was established to carry US mail on the Pacific leg of a transcontinental route via Panama. The federal government discussed the possibility of creating subsidies for a private shipping company, similar to the model already established in Britain for the Cunard Line and

130-596: The American Civil War the ships of the Pacific Mail, that carried the gold and silver of the western mines to the eastern states were under threat from the Confederate Navy in the form of commerce raiders, and several plots to seize one of their steamships for its precious cargo or to convert it into a raider to capture one of its other ships with such cargo. After one of these plots, that of

156-480: The Salvador Pirates came to light, to prevent any further attempts to seize Pacific coast shipping, General McDowell ordered each passenger on board American merchant steamers to surrender all weapons when boarding the ship and every passenger and his baggage was searched. All officers were armed for the protection of their ships. Detachments of Union soldiers sailed with Pacific Mail steamers. In 1867,

182-710: The Sierra Nevada , and business boomed almost from the start. During the California Gold Rush in 1849, the company was a key mover of goods and people and played a key role in the growth of San Francisco , California. In addition to their maritime activities Pacific Mail also ran some of the earliest steamboats on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers , between San Francisco , Sacramento , and Stockton . Domingo Marcucci came from Philadelphia in

208-985: The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia . Mason was born on April 18, 1799, in Hicksford (now Emporia ) in Greensville County , Virginia . A member of the prominent Mason Family of Virginia, he was a descendant of Francis Mason, who was an Englishman that migrated to Virginia in the early 1600s. He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1816 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , attended Litchfield Law School and read law in 1819. Mason entered private practice in Greensville County from 1819 to 1821. He continued private practice in Southampton County, Virginia , from 1821 to 1831. He

234-627: The United States House of Representatives of the 22nd , 23rd and 24th United States Congresses and served from March 4, 1831, until his resignation January 11, 1837. He was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs for the 24th United States Congress. Following his departure from Congress, he resumed private practice in Hicksford from 1837 to 1841. Mason was nominated by President Martin Van Buren on February 26, 1841, to

260-590: The 18th Secretary in the Cabinet of President James K. Polk from September 9, 1846, to March 7, 1849. He was the 18th Attorney General of the United States from March 11, 1845, to September 9, 1846. He resumed the practice of law in Richmond , Virginia from 1849 to 1854. He was appointed United States Minister to France for the United States Department of State and served from January 22, 1854, until his death. Mason married Mary Ann Fort,

286-918: The American flag and raised the Guatemalan flag in its place. The affair led to the recall of the U.S. Minister to Central America, Lansing Bond Mizner, by President Benjamin Harrison . The company was a charter member of the Dow Jones Transportation Average . In 1925, the company was purchased by Robert Dollar , of the Dollar Steamship Company . With the government bail-out of the Dollar Line in 1938, ownership passed to American President Lines , but by this time, PMSS essentially existed only on paper. It

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312-618: The British Mail Steam Packet Company. Such a policy served the larger objective of annexing and developing Oregon. President James K. Polk brought the Oregon Territory into the Union in 1846. Developing and maintaining the new land required the development of faster transportation and communications between the eastern seaboard and the remote northwest. At first the federal mail subsidy program served

338-715: The Pacific Mail Steamship Company on April 12, 1848 with a capital stock of $ 500,000. The first three steamships constructed for Pacific Mail were the SS ; California , of 1050 tons, the SS Oregon , of 1250 tons, and the SS Panama , of 1058 tons. The company initially believed it would be transporting agricultural goods from the West Coast, but just as operations began, gold was found in

364-499: The Pacific Mail on the run from Panama to San Francisco ended. Many of its ships were sold or put on other routes. While docked at San José de Guatemala , the Pacific Mail steamship SS Acapulco was involved in the Barrundia Affair of 1890. General Juan Martín Barrundia , a Guatemalan rebel general wanted by the Guatemalan government, was killed aboard ship after an attempted arrest by Guatemalan police, who hauled down

390-635: The Pacific Mail steamship SS Oregon with a knocked-down steamboat in its hold. He started a shipyard in San Francisco on September 18, 1849, on the beach at Happy Valley , at the foot of Folsom Street, east of Beale Street. Marcucci's company assembled the Captain Sutter in six weeks. Built for the Aspinwall Steam Transportation Line , owned by George W. Aspinwall, brother of William Henry Aspinwall, it

416-507: The Pacific mail contract: a steamer would be required to sail from Panama to Astoria, Oregon in thirty days or less. He awarded the first contract to Arnold Harris, a straw buyer from Arkansas. The contract paid $ 199,000 annually and was in effect for ten years. Just days later, Harris assigned the mail contract to William H. Aspinwall, who brought in three partners: Edwin Bartlett, Henry Chauncey, and Gardiner Greene Howland. They incorporated

442-723: The Pacific, running from Panama to San Francisco . In April 1851, the rivalry was ended when the U.S. Mail Steamship Company purchased Pacific Mail steamers on the Atlantic side, and George Law sold his new company and its ships to the Pacific Mail. One of the company's steamships, the SS Winfield Scott , acquired when the New York and California Steamship Company went out of business, ran aground on Anacapa Island in 1853. In 1854, Marshall Owen Roberts purchased Law's interest and became president of Pacific Mail. During

468-763: The Sacramento run. That April Georgiana pioneered the shortcut route between Sacramento and Stockton through a slough in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta that was between the Sacramento River and Mokelumne River , which afterward became known as Georgiana Slough . In 1850, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company established a steamship line competing with the U.S. Mail Steamship Company between New York City and Chagres . George Law placed an opposition line of steamers (SS Antelope , SS Columbus , SS Isthumus , SS Republic ) in

494-521: The US Department of the Navy to supervise the construction of these ships, and directed the Secretary of the Navy to contract with private carriers to carry US Mail to Oregon via Panama. Initially they planned for monthly mail service. One set of ships was to serve the Atlantic leg between the eastern US and Panama; the other set was to serve the Pacific leg. Secretary Mason set the terms for

520-515: The company launched the first regularly scheduled trans-Pacific steamship service with a route between San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Yokohama , and extended service to Shanghai . This route led to an influx of Japanese and Chinese immigrants, bringing additional cultural diversity to California. As the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met in Utah in 1869, the profitability of

546-720: The daughter of a prominent land-owner, in 1821 and became a planter himself, as well as continuing as a lawyer. He owned Fortsville located near Grizzard , Sussex County , Virginia. Mason died on October 3, 1859, in Paris in the French Empire . His remains were conveyed to the United States and interred in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. USS Mason (DD-191) from 1920 to 1940, and USS Mason (DDG-87) from 2003 to present, were named in honor of Secretary of

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572-711: Was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1823 to 1827, and a member of the Senate of Virginia from 1827 to 1831. He was commonwealth's attorney for Greensville County from 1827 to 1831. He was a delegate to the Virginia constitutional conventions of 1829 and 1850. In 1847, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society . Mason was elected as a Jacksonian Democrat from Virginia's 2nd congressional district to

598-647: Was a ship of the Panama Line . [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Panama&oldid=1254511559 " Categories : Set index articles on ships Ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

624-407: Was formally closed down in 1949, after just over a century of existence. John Y. Mason John Young Mason (April 18, 1799 – October 3, 1859) was a United States representative from Virginia , the 16th and 18th United States Secretary of the Navy , the 18th Attorney General of the United States , United States Minister to France and a United States district judge of

650-651: Was one of the first steamboats that ran between San Francisco and Stockton , in 1849. Also for the Pacific Mail, Marcucci next converted the 153 ton side-wheel steamboat El Dorado that had been rigged as a 3 masted schooner for the trip around Cape Horn , to be used for the Sacramento run. Subsequently in March 1850, for the same company, he assembled the Georgiana , a small 30 ton side-wheel steamboat made in Philadelphia, knocked down and sent by sea also for

676-703: Was wrecked in 1891. SS Panama was an 1898-built passenger liner of the Panama Railroad Steamship Company 1905–1926. SS  Panama  (1902) , was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1920, renamed RFA Maine and served in the Mediterranean Fleet, on the China Station, and was based at Alexandria, Egypt, during World War II. She was decommissioned in 1947, and broken up. SS  Panama  (1939) ,

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