http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/ahj1472.2-25.145/21:4?page=root;rgn=main;size=100;view=image Scott, Erving M. and Others, Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part I, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, January 1895], p. 15; from quod.lib.umich.edu accessed December 14, 2014 It was assembled and launched in the estuary, 30 miles above the mouth of the Colorado River.