Service in California
Yosemite was first placed in service by the California Steam Navigation Company in 1863 to run with Chrysopolis on the Sacramento River. On October 12, 1865, as she was leaving the Rio Vista landing bound down river, her boiler (supposedly a safer “low-pressure” model) exploded, killing 55 people and scalding and injuring many more. She was equipped with new boilers then, and once again in 1876, after which she could reach a speed of 17 miles (27 km) an hour. Railroad competition in California forced her to be laid up at Oakland from 1879 to 1883.
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