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With the outbreak of World War II, the island was taken over by the U.S. military, and the ships of the Wilmington Transportation Company were conscripted as well.The SS Avalon was left behind for limited transportation to and from the mainland, while the SS Catalina and SS Cabrillo were taken to San Francisco to serve as troop transports for the San Francisco Port of Embarkation.
In 1542 Cabrillo was the first European to explore the coast of present-day California. He had three ships: the 200-ton galleon San Salvador, the 100-ton La Victoria and lateen-rigged, 26-oared San Miguel. The two ships were not the square-rigged galleons commonly used for crossing open ocean.
Cuttings Wharf is the final resting place of the SS Cabrillo, a wooden steamship used to transport passengers between Los Angeles and the Channel Islands. [10] The boat launch facility at Cuttings Wharf was rebuilt in the late 1970s. [11] [12]
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo The first European to set foot on the island was the Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , who sailed in the name of the Spanish crown. [ 6 ] On October 7, 1542, he claimed the island for Spain and christened it San Salvador after his ship (Catalina has also been identified as one of the many possible burial ...
[7] [8] The ship was to join the steamers Avalon, Cabrillo and Hermosa already serving the island and designed to make the trip from Los Angeles Harbor to Avalon of 25.5 nautical miles (29.3 mi; 47.2 km) in one and a half hours. [9] Catalina was a twin-screw steel passenger steamer.
Replica of the San Salvador, Cabrillo's flagship. The SS Cabrillo was a wooden steamer launched in 1914 to serve as a ferry across the San Pedro Channel to Santa Catalina Island. It was later requisitioned by the United States Army and served as a troop transport in northern California during World War II.
The last sailing ships built under Cabrillo's direction were the California exploration fleet: caravels, San Salvador (about 100 feet (30 m) long) and the smaller Victoria, and a bergantina (small sail boat or launch), San Miguel. Cabrillo captained the San Salvador and Bartolomé Ferrer the Victoria. These vessels were the first European ...
Ship name Namesake MC hull no. Ship type Laid down Launched Fate SS Jean P. Chouteau: Jean Pierre Chouteau: 2717 standard 30 November 1943: 19 December 1943: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1971 SS Jean Ribaut: Jean Ribault: 2300 standard 23 March 1944: 5 May 1944: Scrapped 1970 SS Jedediah S. Smith: Jedediah S. Smith: 1650 standard 14 April 1943: ...