''Queen of the Pacific'' is a name or nickname of ships and places associated with the Pacific Ocean, the largest of

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's oceans.

Ships

* In 1852, at the height of the age of the fast clipper

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s, the clipper ''Queen of the Pacific'' was launched from

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. * In 1857 the 2,801-ton wooden-hulled side-wheel steamship ''Queen of the Pacific'' was built and launched for the San Francisco –

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line of the Morgan and Garrison partnership. By 1859

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owned her and renamed her for

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service. She was subsequently owned and operated by the

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's Department of the

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, the New York City – Aspinwall service, the

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and Ruger Brothers before being broken up in 1874. * In 1888 the loss of a ''Queen of the Pacific'' in what was then called Port Harford (later renamed Port San Luis) brought forward the installation of the much needed Point San Luis Light in

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, California. The

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ruled in 1901 o
liability for damage
to that ship's cargo. * In 1891 the new 5,905-ton twin-

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steam ocean liner was hailed as the ''Queen of the Pacific'' when

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commissioned her for the trans-Pacific service. Her

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is preserved in

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and there is a

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replica of the figurehead in Vancouver's

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. * ''

Hikawa Maru is a Japanese ocean liner that Yokohama Dock Company built for '' Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha'' ("NYK Line"). She was launched on 30 September 1929 and made her maiden voyage from Kobe to Seattle on 13 May 1930. She is permanently berthed as ...

,'' an 11,602-ton

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liner built in 1929, was nicknamed the ''Queen of the Pacific'' by its passengers. One of only two

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ocean-going passenger liners to survive

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, she retired from service in 1960 and is permanently berthed at Yamashita Park in

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, Japan since 1961. * is Spanish for "Queen of the Pacific", and was the name of a British 17,702-ton

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liner built in 1930. In her time she was the largest ocean liner serving the west coast of South America. * The

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was nicknamed the ''Queen of the Pacific'' while serving as the unofficial flagship of the Coast Guard's Pacific Area commander in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ''Taney'' is preserved by

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in Baltimore

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. Her

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s are in the collection of the Coast Guard Cutter Cruise Book Preservation Center.

Places

Countries

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: in André de la Varre's 1938 documentary film ''"

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, Queen of the Pacific"''. *

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: the "Queen of the Pacific" in Jules Verne's ''

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'' and in Francis Allyn Olmsted's ''Incidents of a Whaling Voyage.''

States

* California: "the youthful Queen of the Pacific, in her robes of freedom, gorgeously inlaid with gold," in a speech by

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to the

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in 1850.

Cities

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* Old Panama City: called the Queen of the Pacific before pirate

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burned it. * San Francisco

People

* Sandra Ávila Beltrán, a Mexican drug lord

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clippers ''Flying Arrow, Golden Racer,'
''Queen of the Pacific,''
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No 130 decided 7 January 1901. "Known a

the ''Empress of Japan'' had soon broken the Pacific speed-record." {{cite web , url= http://www.ssmaritime.com/hikawamaru.htm , last=Goossens , first=Reuben , title=MV Hikawa Maru , work=ssMaritime , access-date=16 April 2013 USCGC ''Taney'' WHEC-3
"Queen of the Pacific"
Viet Nam 1969–1970. ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,'' Chapter XVIII – Vanikoro
"On 15th of December, we left to the east the bewitching group of the

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and the graceful Tahiti, queen of the Pacific."
''Incidents of a Whaling Voyage,'' Chapter XXVI – South Pacific
"The 'queen of the Pacific,' a proud title that has been given to this island." Classic Senate Speeches: William H. Seward

11 March 1850.

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"The Queen of the Pacific".
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Chapter III – The Voyage
"San Francisco had been several times destroyed by fire. Each reconstruction of the city saw improvement as it progressed from a city of canvas to one of wood, then to a metropolis of bricks, a thriving port city. By 1853 she was called the Queen of the Pacific." Ship names Steamships Clippers