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  2. Category:Ships built in San Diego - Wikipedia

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    This is a category for ships that were built in San Diego. Pages in category "Ships built in San Diego" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total.

  3. Star of India (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Retired in 1926, she was restored as a seaworthy museum ship in 1962–3 and home-ported at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in San Diego, California. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still afloat. [4] The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National ...

  4. List of maritime museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Channel Islands (Ventura County) Maritime Museum: California: Port Hueneme: US Navy SeaBee Museum: California: Richmond: Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site: California: Samoa: Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum: California: San Diego: San Diego Maritime Museum: Y California: San Francisco: San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park: Y California

  5. List of museum ships - Wikipedia

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    This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notable boats or dugout canoes or the like. This list does not include submarines; see List of submarine museums for those. This includes ships currently or formerly serving as museums or preserved at ...

  6. List of classic vessels - Wikipedia

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    USS Buncombe County (LST-510) 1943: screw diesel: LST: Orient Point, New York, United States: Ride an operational D-Day ship Cross Sound Ferry Services Inc, regular sailings. Daniel Adamson: 1903: screw steamer: canal tug: Cheshire: Daniel Adamson Preservation Society, regular sailings and charter cruises. Hikitia: 1926: steam twin-screw ...

  7. Maritime history of California - Wikipedia

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    High value cargo like gold and passengers usually went by the Panama or Nicaragua route. Bulkier, lower value cargo, usually went by sailing ship around Cape Horn. A standard sailing ship took an average of about 200 days to go this route while the faster Clipper ships averaged about 140 days. Carrying any significant amount of goods cross ...

  8. San Salvador (Cabrillo's ship) - Wikipedia

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    San Diego replica of the San Salvador, Cabrillo's flagship. San Salvador was the flagship of explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese). She was a 100-foot (30 m) full-rigged galleon with 10-foot (3.0 m) draft and capacity of 200 tons. [1] She carried officers, crew, and a priest.

  9. Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego - Wikipedia

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    Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego was a part of the United States Navy reserve fleets, also called a mothball fleet, used to store surplus ships after World War II. Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego was near Naval Base San Diego in San Diego, California. [1] Some ships in the fleet were reactivated for the Korean War and Vietnam War. The reserve ...