SS California (1848)
 SS California was one of the first steamships to steam in the Pacific Ocean and the first steamship to travel from Central America to North America. She was built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company which was founded April 18 1848 as a joint stock company in the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants William H. Aspinwall Edwin Bartlett Henry Chauncey Mr. Alsop G.G. Howland and S.S. Howland.