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The piers in San Francisco are part of the Port of San Francisco and run along the Embarcadero, following the curve along the eastern waterfront and roadway of the Port of San Francisco. [1] The Ferry Building is considered the center with the odd-numbered piers going north of the building at Market Street, and the even-numbered piers going south.
The lagoon is fronted by a sandy beach and a stepped concrete seawall. To the south is a grassy area known as Victorian Park, which contains the Hyde Street cable car turnaround. Hyde Street Pier, though part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, is not part of Aquatic Park Historic District.
The San Francisco waterfront piers played a crucial role in the Pacific theater during World War II. With the outbreak of the war, San Francisco's waterfront became a military logistics center; troops, equipment and supplies left the Port in support of the Pacific theater. Almost every pier and wharf was involved in military activities, with ...
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San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf district is seeing a surge in sea lions. First appearing at Pier 39 after the 1989 earthquake, the sea lions have become a well known tourist attraction.
FogCam [a] is the longest-running webcam in the world, barring maintenance breaks and camera replacements. In 1994, two students Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong set up the webcam at San Francisco State University. It was nearly shut down in 2019 as the creators said they faced difficulties in maintaining the webcam.
The South Pier Lighthouse lost its dome due to waves breaching the pier wall. [45] There is a third lighthouse, just upstream of the pier, on the Herd Groyne at South Shields (which was constructed in 1861–67 to preserve Littlehaven Beach, then known as Herd Sands, which had begun to be washed away by the change of currents caused by the new ...
Eppleton Hall is a paddlewheel tugboat built in England in 1914. The only remaining intact example of a Tyne-built paddle tug, and one of only two surviving British-built paddle tugs (the other being the former Tees Conservancy Commissioners' vessel, PS John H Amos), [3] she is preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California.