Capital (sidewheeler)

History
Capital, steamboat, ran on San Francisco Bay and Sacramento River from 1866 to July 1876 when it became a ferry until 1896.
Name:	Capital
Builder:	John Gunder North, in San Francisco
Laid down:	1866
Launched:	1866
Fate:	Broken up in 1896.
General characteristics
Type:	Side-wheel paddle steamer
Displacement:	1,989
Length:	277

Capital, a famous side-wheel steamboat that ran between Sacramento and San Francisco from 1866 to 1896.

Capital was built in San Francisco, by shipbuilder John Gunder North in his shipyard in the Potrero District. Launched in 1866, it was a 277 feet long, 1,989 ton, side-wheel paddle steamer. Capital, was the largest of the steamboats on the rivers in California and the last side-wheel steamer built for the California Steam Navigation Company for the run between Sacramento and San Francisco until it was put to use as a ferry by the railroad between Oakland and San Francisco in July 1876. It remained on the water under various owners until it was broken up 1896.^[1]^{:63, 128 135}

Notes

↑ MacMullen, Jerry, Paddle-Wheel Days in California, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1970.

Steamboats of California

Particular vessels	Annie Abernathy Antelope Aquilo (yacht) City of Sacramento Bayocean Capital Captain Sutter Chrysopolis City of Seattle Delta King Delta Queen Eureka El Dorado El Primero George E. Starr Georgiana Goliah Hartford Issaquah Klamath (inland steamboat) Ocean Wave Magdalena McKim Mint Monarch New World Pioneer Rabboni Rosalie San Rafael SS Senator Sitka Wallamet Washington Washoe Wilson G. Hunt Yosemite

Ferries of San Francisco Bay	Clinton Contra Costa Oakland Piedmont Solano Thoroughfare Transit Ukiah

Steamboat Lines	Aspinwall Steam Transportation Line California Steam Navigation Company Contra Costa Steam Navigation Company George A. Johnson & Company Pacific Mail Steamship Company

Water routes	California Coast Colorado River San Francisco Bay Sacramento River San Joaquin River

Steamboat owners and captains	Joseph Barnard Benjamin M. Hartshorne George A. Johnson Charles Minturn James Turnbull Issac Warren

Builders	Domingo Marcucci John G. North Henry Owens Austin Hills Patrick Henry Tiernan

Shipyards	Hunters Point North's Shipyard Potrero Point Rincon Point Steamboat Point Sutter Iron Works Tichenor's Ways Union Iron Works Yerba Buena Cove

Lists of vessels	List of Steamboats on the Colorado River List of Steamboats and Steam Ferries on San Francisco Bay List of Steamboats on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries

Steamboats in other areas	Columbia River Willamette River Oregon Coast Yaquina Bay and river Coquille River Cowlitz River Puget Sound Lake Washington Grays Harbor Chehalis River Hoquiam River Willapa Bay Columbia River (Wenatchee Reach) Lake Crescent Arrow Lakes Upper Fraser River Skeena River

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