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Roe, Francis Asbury, RADM USN(Ret).
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These ships were crewed by the U. S. Navy but belonged to private corporations. It was a Wooden side-wheeled steamer, built by Smith and Dimon, New York, for the United States Mail Steamship Company. Launched September 6, 1848, she entered the New York - Chagres service on January 28, 1850, and continued to operate to the Isthmus until February, 1854. The Georgia was partially wrecked in a gale in 1854. She was laid up in New York from 1854 to 1859, and subsequently condemned