The Deadly Race of the Yankee Blade (1854)

The Evening News from Monday the 9th, 1854 included the following speculation: “Doubtless the Yankee Blade was heavily insured: and steamboating business on the Pacific has not been of late so lucrative as in times past, and with little future prospects of its ever becoming what it has been; it therefore suggests itself to us that this running of steamers on rocks -- far away from their due and proper course, is a ready means of turning ships into money, regardless of the loss of human life.” Ship Name: Yankee Blade Year Built: 1853Tonnage: 1,000Ship Type: Side Wheel Steamship Nationality: United States of America Year Wrecked: 1854Location Wrecked: Point Conception, California Reason for Wreck: Navigation Error in Fog Lives Lost: 30 Sources: https://newspaperarchive.com/nevada-city-journal-oct-13-1854-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/warren-mail-nov-25-1854-p-1/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1854/11/15/88145793.html?pageNumber=3https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1854/11/10/88145284.html?pageNumber=1https://newspaperarchive.com/muscatine-tri-weekly-journal-nov-17-1854-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/shasta-courier-oct-14-1854-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/columbia-gazette-oct-14-1854-p-2/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCdIyR8wtYYC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=yankee+blade+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=Gq0nIm8B22EC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+randall+yankee+blade&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=W2MxAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+randall+yankee+blade&source=gbs_navlinks_s