Mail Steamship Company was a company formed in 1848 by George Law, Marshall Roberts and Bowes McIlvaine to assume the contract to carry the mails from New York City, with stops in New Orleans and Havana, to the Isthmus of Panama for delivery in California. The company had the SS Ohio and the SS Georgia built in 1848, and with the purchased SS Falcon in early 1849 carried the first passengers by steamship to Chagres, on the east coast of the Isthmus of Panama.
Steamship Postal Service, 1840s
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