Origin
Who founded it
U.S. Mail Steamship Company was founded in 1848 by 3 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
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packet trade
Reported fleet size
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Container capacity
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In brief
U.S. Mail Steamship Company was a company formed in 1848 by George Law, Marshall Owen Roberts and Bowes R. McIlvaine to assume the contract to carry the U. S. mails from New York City, with stops in New Orleans and Havana, to the Isthmus of Panama for delivery in California. The company had the SS Ohio and the SS Georgia built in 1848, and with the purchased SS Falcon in early 1849 carried the first passengers by steamship to Chagres, on the east coast of the Isthmus of Panama. Soon the rapid transit time the steamship lines and the trans isthmus passage made possible when the California Gold Rush began made it a very profitable company.
When in 1850 the Pacific Mail Steamship Company established a competing line to the U.S. Mail Steamship Company between New York City and Chagres, George Law placed an opposition Pacific Line of steamers (SS Antelope, SS Columbus, SS Isthumus, SS Republic) in the Pacific running from Panama to San Francisco. In April, 1851, the rivalry was ended when an agreement was made between the companies, the U.S. Mail Steamship Company purchased the Pacific Mail steamers on the Atlantic side (SS Crescent City, SS Empire City, SS Philadelphia), and George Law sold his ships and new line to the Pacific Mail. Law went into partnership with William Henry Aspinwall to develop the Panama Railroad in 1852.
Origin
U.S. Mail Steamship Company was founded in 1848 by 3 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
Corporate profile
Vessel records
No individual ships attributed to this company yet
The company is on record, but no vessel in the registry currently names it as operator or owner. Nothing is invented to fill this space.
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which U.S. Mail Steamship Company ranks 111th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.
Founded in 1848, U.S. Mail Steamship Company is 178 years old. This directory holds 23 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 2 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q7863218, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from U.S. Mail Steamship Company on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
