[1] The competition was settled in January 1875, with Goodall, Nelson and Perkins buying six side-wheel steamships from Pacific Mail, as well as certain wharves.

[1] On November 4 of that same year, their paddle steamer SS Pacific was lost in a collision off Cape Flattery, Washington[2] with the deaths of over 200 people.

[3] Less than a year later Christopher Nelson retired and the remaining partners reorganized, on October 17, 1876, as the Pacific Coast Steamship Company (P.C.S.S.C.

[4] A similar competition with the California, Oregon & Mexican Steamship Company in 1877 for the San Francisco-Portland route led to a joint agreement and a pooling of ships for several years.

The City of Topeka did a 22-day round trip between Seattle and Skagway, stopping in Port Townsend, Victoria, Mary Island, Wrangell, and Juneau.

[7] They weren't necessarily the fastest ships on some of these runs, but they were close, and a lot steadier and more comfortable than their slightly speedier competitors.

[7] Beginning around 1873, a horse-powered, 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge tramway transported passengers and freight between Port Harford and a wagon road at Avila Beach.

The Admiral Line however also adopted the name "The Pacific Steamship Company", which it used until 1936 when operations ceased, victims of the Great Depression in general and especially of the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike.

[8] Separately from that, the "Pacific Coast Steamship Company" name lived on until 1938 for two freighters, used in the Alaska gypsum trade: the Diamond Cement and the Eastern Guide.