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The Consolidated PBY Catalina was a twin-engined American flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s, designed by Consolidated Aircraft Co. Several variants were built at five US and Canadian manufacturing plants. Surviving Canso A G-PBYA at Duxford Flying Legends 2007.
1875 - 1900. Mendocino ( United States ), 2 December 1888. The two-masted steam schooner was wrecked on Humboldt Bar, abandoned 7 January 1889, the lumber cargo was saved, one child died. The ship lay where it was wrecked until she broke up. [ 3] 40°55′0″N 124°8′30″W.
The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, California, located on 638 acres (258 ha) of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city. Originally, Hunters Point was a commercial shipyard established in 1870, consisting of two graving docks. It was purchased and built up in the late ...
San Pedro Boatworks also called the San Pedro Boat and Yacht Company was a boatyard in San Pedro, California the entrance to the West Channel of Los Angeles Harbor, at berth 44 and next to fire station 110. The boatyard opened in 1923 and closed in 2002, the site has been abandoned since then. The address is 210 Whalers Walk, San Pedro, with ...
A Balao -class submarine that was sunk as a target off San Clemente. 33°25′30″N 117°37′44″W / 33.425°N 117.629°W / 33.425; -117.629 (USS Moray (SS-300)) USS Naifeh. United States Navy. 11 July 1966. A John C. Butler -class destroyer escort that was sunk as a target off San Clemente Island.
An abandoned Monterey Clipper being used as a planter at Mission Bay Inlet in San Francisco, California. Today, this boat is too small, too slow, and inadequate for commercial fishing . In its day, it could support a family, and sometimes two, but it now serves mainly as a pleasure craft.
An abandoned, sunken boat is seen at low tide on Wed., Sept. 21 in Battery Creek with buoy markers to alert boaters near the shrimp dock in the Town of Port Royal.