John Gunder North

Chrysopolis, one of the first steamboats built at North's Shipyard, ran on San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River from 1860 to 1875. It holds the record for the fastest passage by a steamboat between Sacramento and San Francisco.

John Gunder North (December 15, 1826 – September 19, 1872) was a Norwegian born ship builder in San Francisco. During his career, he built 273 hulls of all kinds with 53 bay and river steamers, including the famed paddle steamers Chrysopolis, Yosemite and Capital.[1]: 122, 127 

  1. ^ Narratives of Domingo Marcucci, John G. North, Peter Owens, Patrick Tiernan, George Middlemass, James Dickie, Irving M. Scott, and Others, Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part II, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, February 1895