El Dorado was a 2 kg side-wheel steamship, was ordered by Captain J. W. Wright and built by Thomas Collyer. It was originally to be named Caribbean; however she was sold while still on the stocks to Howland & Aspinwall, who were building up a fleet of steamers on the Atlantic Ocean. [1]: 201 [2]: 42, 43 [3]: 133, 135 [4]: 336 [5]
- ^ T. C. Purdy, Report on Steam Navigation in the United States, Census Reports Tenth Census: Report on the agencies of transportation in the United States, including the statistics of railroads, steam navigation, canals, telegraphs, and telephones, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1883, pp.653-724, Pacific Coast, pp.680-689
- ^ Jerry MacMullen, Paddlewheel Days In California, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1970.
- ^ Erik Heyl, Early American Steamers - Volume 1, Erik Heyl, 1953
- ^ Charles R. Schultz, Forty-niners 'round the Horn, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1999
- ^ Admeasurement, Steam Boat El-Dorado of Philadelphia by Thomas Young, edition published in 1849 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide. Admeasurements of Steamboat El Dorado, built in Wilmington, Del. by Thomas Young for Geo. W. Aspinwall, Esq. of Philadelphia. Gives length, breadth, depth, tonnage and rigging details. One sheet signed by Young, ship carpenter; one sheet calculations only, unsigned; and one sheet signed by Jacob B. Vandever, measurer of vessels at the port of Wilmington