was then quickly sold off to the White Flyer Line due to her age. She was later sold to the Los Angeles and San Francisco Navigation Company along with the Humboldt. San Juan was lost on August 29, 1929 after a collision with the 9 year old Standard Oil Company tanker S.C.T. Dodd. San Juan sank in less than 3 minutes. SS Asia (1906-1911) Built by Harland & Wolff in 1883 as the White Star Line's Doric. Initially chartered to the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, she was sold to Pacific Mail after the winding up of the former company. She was wrecked near Taichow Islands, Wenzhou, South China in 1911. SS Persia (1906-1915) Built by Harland & Wolff in 1881 as the White Star Line's Coptic. Initially chartered to the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, she was sold to Pacific Mail after the winding up of the former company. Later sold to the Japanese Oriental Steam Ship Co. She was scrapped in 1926. SS Peru (1892) (1892-1915) A steamship built by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, for Pacific Mail launched June 11, 1892. Peru, official number 150595, was the largest steel freight and passenger ship ever built on the Pacific coast at the time. Peru entered the San Francisco to China and Japan route August 1892. The ship was briefly with Grace Line and then sold to a French line and renamed Lux about 1915. Lux went missing in the Mediterranean in 1920 on a voyage from Marseille to Oran. SS China 10,200 ton steamship. SS Nile 11,000 ton steamship. SS Korea 18,000 ton twin screw steamship. SS Siberia 18,000 ton twin screw steamship. SS Manchuria (1903-1915) 27,000 ton twin screw steamship. SS Mongolia (1904-1915) 27,000 ton twin screw steamship. See also History of American President Lines, Pacific Mail Company Gold, Silk, Pioneers and Mail: The Story of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, by Robert J. Chandler and Stephen J. Potash, published by the Friends of the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library, San Francisco, 2007 and 2010 http://maritimelibraryfriends.org. Voices From The Bottom of the South China Sea: The Untold Story of the Largest Loss of Chinese Emigrants, by Robert S Wells, Fortis, 2014; aboard P.M.S.S. Japan- please see www.southchinavoices.com References Czernek, Andrew, "Sinking of the SS Golden Gate", originally published 1997; updated August 2018. External links Pacific Mail—Under the American Flag Around the World (six page company history feature