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Pages in category "Shipwrecks of the California coast" The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
"On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
A shipwreck is the remains of a ship that has been wrecked, found either on land, beached, or sunken at the bottom of the sea. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization estimated that over 3 million shipwrecks are spread across the ocean floors. [17]
From 1825 to 1848 the average number of ships traveling to California increased to about 25 ships per year—a large increase from the average of 2.5 ships per year from 1769 to 1824. [27] The port of entry for trading purposes was the Alta California Capital, Monterey, California, where customs duties of about 100% were applied. These high ...
Replica of the "good ship" Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common. No one ever died on the Jeanie Johnston. A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.
Lucid was decommissioned at U.S. Naval Shipyard Long Beach, California on 23 December 1970 and the ship was transferred to the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility, Long Beach. [4] Lucid was struck from the Navy Vessel Register on 15 May 1976 and "disposed of by Navy Sale" on 1 November 1976. [5] The scrap yard removed valuable metals and equipment.
During the California Gold Rush, thousands of ships sailed in and out of San Francisco. The sea became the cheapest way to bring goods to the growing city. From 1848 to 1869, ships carried 500,000 passengers to and from San Francisco. [citation needed] Many fishing and whaling vessels navigated the waters of San Francisco Bay. In the 1880s San ...
The California Coastal Conservancy provided the Maritime Museum of San Diego with a US$ 300,000 grant to complete restoration of the Californian in February 2003. After the overhaul was completed in August 2003 Californian returned to providing sail training and sea educational programs up and down the California coast. [4]