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  - Lodge Letters
  - Popular Mechanics, May 1903

Song about the GG sinking from 1863

Google Answers on gold recovery

The Sinking of the S.S. Golden Gate

by Andrew Czernek, aczernekATcomcast.net

A transcription of the Aug. 7, 1862 Daily Alta California, complete with survivors' accounts of the fire and the initial list of survivors, dead and missing. Note that the initial list has many inaccuracies resolved in this final list.

Revision: 6/6/2023