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Aspinwall Steam Transportation Line was an early steamboat line during the California Gold Rush.

The Aspinwall Line added the El Dorado running to Sacramento and the Sacramento running to San Jose, both twice weekly.

El Dorado 153 tons   133 PHOTO; Built in 1850 as CARIBBEAN by Thomas Collver, purchased by Aspenwall and renamed EL DORADO, 1850-1857, P.135  "Ordered by Captain J. W. Wright and originally named CARIBBEAN, she was sold while still on the stocks to Howland & Aspinwall, who were building up a fleet of steamers on the Atlantic ..." "Succeeding her on the Stockton run was the El Dorado, with Captain Warren having relinquished the command on the former for the latter. Faced with the sobering fact of a mushrooming fleet of steamers on all the rivers, the Aspinwall Line ..." p.469-478 The Schooner/Steamer El Dorado Towboat 6/1851