![]() She had three decks and weighed 2,067 tons. She was built of wood, 269 feet (82 m) long and 40 feet (12 m) wide, with a fully loaded draft of 13 feet 8 inches (4.17 m). The keel was laid down on 1 July 1850 at the Webb & Allen shipyard in Manhattan, now located between Fifth and Seventh Streets on the East River. Webb of New York for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Much of this was retrieved, but amateurs continue to search for gold with metal detectors on what is now called the Playa de Oro (Gold Beach). The ship was carrying $1,400,000 in gold coins for Wells Fargo, as well as large amounts of gold and coins for the passengers. ![]() On its last voyage from San Francisco it caught fire and was destroyed with the loss of 204 lives off Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. Golden Gate was a mail and passenger steamer that operated between San Francisco and Panama City from 1851 to 1862. ![]()
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