Chrysopolis (sidewheeler)

History
Chrysopolis, at the time it was built North's largest steamboat, and the fastest on the San Francisco - Sacramento run from 1860 - 1875. Rebuilt in 1875 by Patrick Henry Tiernan, it ran as the San Francisco Bay ferry Oakland until 1940.
Name:	Chrysopolis
Builder:	John Gunder North, in San Francisco
Laid down:	1860
Launched:	1860
Fate:	Rebuilt in 1875 as the San Francisco Bay ferry Oakland. Destroyed by fire in 1940.
General characteristics
Type:	Side-wheel paddle steamer
Displacement:	1,050 tons
Length:	245 feet
Beam:	40 feet
Draught:	4.5 feet
Propulsion:	single cylinder, vertical-beam engine
Speed:	19.8 knots
Notes:	Capacity: 1,000 passengers, 700 tons of cargo.

Chrysopolis, a famous side-wheel steamboat that ran between Sacramento and San Francisco from 1860 to 1875 when it was rebuilt as a ferry that continued in service for more than 60 years.

Chrysopolis was built in San Francisco, by shipbuilder John Gunder North in his new shipyard in the Potrero District. Launched in 1860, it was a side-wheel paddle steamer of 245 feet long with a 40-foot beam, displacing 1050 tons. It was equipped with a 1,357 horsepower, single cylinder, vertical-beam engine powered by two 32 ton boilers. It had two side-wheels 32 feet in diameter with 8 foot buckets (the wooden blades of a paddle wheel). It could carry 1,000 passengers and 700 tons of cargo at great speed. On December 31,1861 it made the record setting run for a steamboat over the 120 mile distance between Sacramento and San Francisco in 5 hours and 19 minutes, making an average speed of 19.8 knots.

Rebuilt as Ferry "Oakland"

Chrysopolis was rebuilt in 1875 by Patrick Henry Tiernan as the San Francisco Bay ferry Oakland. Tiernan turned it into a double ended ferry-boat, cutting it in two and extending her length to 282 feet 7 inches overall with depth of hold amidships, 17.5 feet.^[1]^:151 It was destroyed by fire in 1940.^[2]^{:34-40, 136, 142}

Notes

↑ E. M. North, Evolution of Shipping and Shipbuilding in California VI, February 1899, The Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, January - June 1899, Overland Monthly Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1899.
↑ 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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