So it remained a low-volume cargo operation dedicated to the movement of the mail and gold dust.Ĭlipper ships were specialty vehicles for moving cargo such as mail as fast as possible. Yet only one in five of those emigrating to California between 18 passed this way, primarily because even with the railroad the Isthmian crossing exposed passengers to a variety of often fatal tropical diseases. The completion of the Panama Railroad in 1855 added considerably to the safety and speed of the route, bringing the total time of passage down to around thirty days. As a means of encouraging it, Congress provided operating subsidies of approximately three hundred thousand dollars per year to both the United States Mail Steamship Company, which plied the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, its West Coast equivalent, while stabilizing postage rates at a nominal ten cents per letter. The obvious alternative was the trans-Isthmian route. That was not nearly enough a shorter path was clearly needed. In 1854 the storied Flying Cloud ran from New York to San Francisco in an unprecedented eighty-nine days and eight hours, and the same year Comet made the return voyage in seventy-six days. Worst of all, despite their speed relative to other vessels of the time, they were still too slow a means of getting mail and other information back and forth -thanks mainly to the distance around the Horn (the longest domestic trade route in the world). Not only were they expensive to operate, but their sailors tended to jump ship and join the gold rush upon arrival, stranding a number of clippers along with hundreds of other packets in San Francisco Bay. The romance surrounding the clipper ships disguised their inadequacies as reliable links between East and West. Their narrow hulls, sharp lines, and towering suits of sails made them specialty vehicles, frankly aimed at getting a select bill of lading to its destination as fast as possible. This was the way of the clippers, the massively oversailed seaborne racers that were the first in the line of American priority-cargo carriers. The most dramatic route was around Cape Horn and all the way up the Pacific coast of South and Central America to the United States. Some sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, struggled across the Isthmus of Panama, and reembarked by packet to California. While many literally walked the distance, by far the fastest means was by sea. It was a “gold rush” indeed, for the principal aim of these migrants was to get there as fast as possible. "Visited Reggio Calabria, a city my husband lived in when he was about 8 years old," Vanessa captioned photos of her youngest daughters wearing pink dresses.įor more with the Bryant family, check out the links below.The best part of the story begins in the 1840s, when the vast Southwestern and Western territories added by Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War transformed the Republic into a transcontinental nation, and the discovery of gold in California sent thousands scurrying toward the Pacific.
In July, the Bryant women visited the Italian city where Kobe lived when he was a child. Since her husband and her daughter’s passing, Vanessa kept their memory alive by marking special occasions with her and Kobe's daughters, Natalia, Bianka, 5, and Capri, 3. She shared while on the stand that, to this day, she experiences panic attacks and anxiety over the possibility of seeing the photos from the devastating 2020 helicopter crash. Vanessa’s appearance on Monday marked the first since she took the stand on Friday and recounted the emotional moment when she was alerted that the graphic photos of Kobe and Gianna had been taken. Kobe’s birthday comes one day after Vanessa was joined by her and Kobe's 20-year-old daughter, Natalia, and friends Monica and Ciara at the Los Angeles courthouse for the third week of trail for her case against Los Angeles County regarding graphic photos taken and shared by officers from the helicopter crash site that killed her husband, the couple's 13-year-old daughter, Gianna Bryant, and seven others in January 2020. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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