Wreck of the San Francisco
Subtitle: Disaster and Aftermath in the Great Hurricane of December 1853
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781476674100
Subjects: Steamboats and steamboat lines; Shipwrecks; Voyages to the pacific coast
Description: "On December 22, 1853, the San Francisco left New York, chartered by the U.S. Government to transport the Third Artillery. Two days out, the ship ran into one of the great hurricanes of maritime history. A few days later, cholera broke out. After two weeks, survivors were rescued by three ships but barely made it back"--