was an American steamship that operated on the Pacific Coast until she wrecked off the Oregon Coast in 1852. Named after General

Joseph Warren Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775), a Founding Father of the United States, was an American physician who was one of the most important figures in the Patriot movement in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution, ...

her early history is unknown, but she began Pacific service in October 1850 under the ownership of Garrison & Fritz in

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. On January 28, 1852, she departed

Astoria, Oregon Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. The county is the northwest corne ...

bound for San Francisco under the command of Captain Charles Thompson with 52 people and a cargo of largely farm goods aboard. After crossing

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, she encountered heavy weather and began taking on water. Gibbs, p. 121 On the morning of the 29th, she made a course back to the

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, and in the afternoon boarded pilot George Flavel, who had brought her out the previous day. By evening the ebb tide was flowing strongly out from the river, and ''General Warren'' took on water while struggling to cross the spit, leading Captain Thompson to order her run aground on the sand. As the ship took heavy damage from the wind and waves, at about three in the morning on the 30th pilot Flavel and nine others took a small boat to Astoria. Reaching the harbor, they found another boat and crew to go back out to ''General Warren'''s location, but when they reached the sandbar again the ship had been completely destroyed with all on board lost.Gibbs, p. 123

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:General Warren Maritime incidents in January 1852 Shipwrecks of the Oregon coast 1852 in Oregon Territory