More GOVERNOR SAFFORD

John H. Dialogue Shipyard
Camden, NJ

USRC Colfax was built at the Dialogue Shipyard in 1871. I don’t recall the year, but the Colfax was lengthened and refurbished at Pusey, Jones & Co. in Wilmington, DE some years later. The Colfax was in the 1988 Marine Parade in Wilmington, NC. There is a good picture of the Colfax at the Pusey, Jones & Co. wharf.

The Governor Safford was built by Dialogue but apparently, her machinery was built by Pusey, Jones & Company. There is a good image of the Gov. Safford at the Pusey, Jones & Co. wharf.
http://www.dvrbs.com/People/CamdenPeople-JohnHDialogue.htm

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http://dspace.nelson.usf.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10806/135/Schnur_James_Springing_into_Action.pdf?sequence=1
…The arrival of the railroad in upper Pinellas led to the demise of Tarpon’s most
notable steamboats.
The larger Governor Safford departed for service as a ferryboat in New York and
South Carolina before sinking in 1908; …

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Georgetown, SC newspaper article reporting Gov. Safford sinking.
http://www.gcdigital.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/GTNP02/id/1501/rec/2

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Gov. Safford used for Sunday School trip up Hudson River past West Point
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/agnes-e-kirkwood/church-and-sunday-school-work-in-yonkers-its-origin-and-progress-kri/page-36-church-and-sunday-school-work-in-yonkers-its-origin-and-progress-kri.shtml

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http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/george-m-from-old-catalog-barbour/florida-for-tourists-invalids-and-settlers-bra/page-22-florida-for-tourists-invalids-and-settlers-bra.shtml

Press communications announce, for the season 1884 ’85, as
follows:

"A steamboat line will start running this autumn from Cedar
Keys — that of the Gulf Steamship Company, caUing at the principal
shallow harbors along the coast between Cedar Keys and Tampa.
Their steamer, the Governor SafFord, a thirty-thousand-dollar boat,
now being built by the Pusey & Jones Company, of Wilmington,
Delaware, will have finst-class accommodation for passengers. She

308 FLORIDA.

will be one hundred and thirty-two feet from stem to stern and her
draught only three and a half feet.

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