Zenobia (1836 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Zenobia (ship).

History
United States
Name	Zenobia
Owner	Daniel Pinckney Parker, Boston
Builder	J. Stetson, Medford, MA
Launched	1836
Fate	Wrecked April 20, 1858
General characteristics
Class and type	Full-rigged ship
Tons burthen	630 tons [1]

Zenobia was full-rigged ship built in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1837. She was known for transporting a cargo of ice from Sitka, Alaska, to San Francisco, California.

Voyages under Capt. Lovejoy

Captain H. B. Lovejoy, mate of Zenobia, was for many years a well-known maritime pilot on Puget Sound. He was born in Maine in 1805, spent the early part of his life after leaving home in the United States Navy, and came to the United States Pacific Coast in 1849. After a short stay in the mines he began sailing out of San Francisco to southern ports. He was for several years master of the bark Chalcedony, a famous northern trader in her day, and in 1858 was in the service of the Russian-American Trading Company, running between San Francisco and Alaska on Zenobia. He continued in this service until Zenobia was wrecked near San Francisco, when he went to Puget Sound and commenced piloting and steamboating. He died at Coupeville. Washington Territory, on July 6, 1872.

Loss of the ship

Zenobia, which had been sailing between Alaska and San Francisco in the service of the Russian-American Ice Company for several years, was lost off Point Bonita, California, on April 20, 1858, while attempting to sail into the entrance to San Francisco Bay without a pilot. She was under the command of Captain Tilden, was deeply loaded with ice. and struck a rock with such force that she became a complete wreck.[1][2]

References

1. Gleason, Hall (1937). Old Ships and Ship-Building Days of Medford. Medford, MA: J.C. Miller. p. 62.
2. Wright, E.W. (1895). Lewis & Dryden's marine history of the Pacific Northwest: an illustrated review of the growth and development of the maritime industry, from the advent of the earliest navigators to the present time, with sketches and portraits of a number of well known marine men. Portland, OR: Lewis & Dryden Print. Co. p. 78. zenobia ship 1858.