First Cargo of Sugar to Port Costa Refinery

On April 3, 1898, the Inca brougnt the first cargo, 31,763 bags of sugar, from Honolulu to the new sugar refinery at Port Costa, California. The barkentine Planter followed with a second sugar cargo from Honolulu shortly thereafter

Inca, was “the first true five-masted schooner built on the West Coast, she was 1,014 tons and 1600 M feet capacity, the second of her rig built on the Pacific, and was launched at Port Blakely by Hall Bros. in 1896 for their own account. On October 10, 1920, she left Eureka for Sydney with a, cargo of redwood lumber, and on December 7 was abandoned dismasted. Two of the crew volunteered to remain on board until a tow could be sent out for them. The master, his wife, and the other 10 of the crew were picked up by the steamship Cosmos, which found the Inca on December 16 and took her in tow, arriving at Sydney on the 18th. Here she was discharged and sold for a hulk. John Lyman, Pacific coast built sailers 1850-1905,

Sources

The Marine Digest. May 10, 1941, p. 2

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