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

Ships

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

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sailing ships, the clipper ''Queen of the Pacific'' was launched from Pembroke, Maine. * In 1857 the 2,801-ton wooden-hulled side-wheel

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''Queen of the Pacific'' was built and launched for the San Francisco – Nicaragua line of the

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and

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partnership. By 1859 Cornelius Vanderbilt owned her and renamed her for transatlantic service. She was subsequently owned and operated by the Quartermaster's Department of the United States Department of War, the New York City – Aspinwall service, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company 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 The Point San Luis Lighthouse, also known as the San Luis Obispo Light Station, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Located near Avila Beach on the Central Coast of California in San Luis Obispo County, it is the only Prairie Victori ...

in San Luis Obispo County, California. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1901 o
liability for damage
to that ship's cargo. * In 1891 the new 5,905-ton twin- funnel steam

ocean liner An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships). Ca ...

was hailed as the ''Queen of the Pacific'' when Canadian Pacific Steamships commissioned her for the trans-Pacific service. Her figurehead is preserved in Vancouver Maritime Museum and there is a fiberglass

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of the figurehead in Vancouver's Stanley Park. * '' Hikawa Maru,'' an 11,602-ton NYK Line liner built in 1929, was nicknamed the ''Queen of the Pacific'' by its passengers. One of only two Imperial Japanese ocean-going passenger liners to survive World War II, she retired from service in 1960 and is permanently berthed at Yamashita Park in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan since 1961. * is Spanish for "Queen of the Pacific", and was the name of a British 17,702-ton Pacific Steam Navigation Company liner built in 1930. In her time she was the largest ocean liner serving the west coast of South America. * The United States Coast Guard Cutter was nicknamed the ''Queen of the Pacific'' while serving as the unofficial

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of the Coast Guard's Pacific Area commander in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ''Taney'' is preserved by Baltimore Maritime Museum in Baltimore Inner Harbor. Her cruise books are in the collection of the Coast Guard Cutter Cruise Book Preservation Center.

Places

Countries

* Philippines: in André de la Varre's 1938 documentary film ''" Manila, Queen of the Pacific"''. * Tahiti: the "Queen of the Pacific" in

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's '' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'' and in

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'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 William H. Seward to the United States Senate in 1850.

Cities

* Acapulco, Mexico * Honolulu, Hawaii * Old Panama City: called the Queen of the Pacific before pirate Henry Morgan burned it. * San Francisco

People

Sandra Ávila Beltrán Sandra Ávila Beltrán (born 16 October 1960) is a Mexicans, Mexican drug cartel member, dubbed "La Reina del Pacífico" (The Queen of the Pacific) by the media. She was arrested on September 28, 2007, and was charged with organized crime and co ...

, a Mexican drug lord

References

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"On 15th of December, we left to the east the bewitching group of the Societies and the graceful Tahiti, queen of the Pacific."
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"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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"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