Georgiana (side-wheeler)
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Georgiana, a small side-wheel steamboat made in Philadelphia in 1849, one of the first on the waters of the Mokelumne River, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Tuolumne Rivers of California.
The Georgiana was a 30-ton steamboat,[1]: 137 built for the Aspinwall Steam Transportation Line in Philadelphia, knocked down and sent by sea to San Francisco in 1849. It was to be reassembled at the shipyard of Domingo Marcucci on the beach on San Francisco Bay just south of Folsom Street and east of Beale Street. Her keel was laid on February 22, 1850. She was 73 feet long, with a 16 feet beam and a 4.5-foot-deep hold and had machinery was put in by George K. Gluyas. Marcucci launched her with steam up and she began her trial run immediately.[2]: 14 [3]