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Steamboats operated in California on San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, and Sacramento River as early as November 1847, when the Sitka built by William A. Leidesdorff briefly ran on San Francisco Bay and up the Sacramento River to New Helvetia. After the first discovery of gold in California the first shipping on ...
The three ferries were loaned to the San Francisco Bay Area after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake left the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge closed for repairs. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In January 1990, the ferries returned to the Seattle area, [ 10 ] and began regular passenger service on April 23, 1990.
In 1853, Hudson's Bay Company brought a new steam-powered vessel into the area, the Otter, a propeller-driven bark. [2]: 6–9 The Native Americans traversed Puget Sound in well-built cedar canoes, as they had for thousands of years, and for some time so did the American settlers, who only began to arrive in very small numbers in 1846. In 1851 ...
Originally built as the MV Stockton in San Francisco for Southern Pacific Railroad, she started out serving Southern Pacific Railways on their Golden Gate Ferries line on San Francisco Bay. She was purchased by the Puget Sound Navigation Company in 1940, moved to Puget Sound , and renamed the MV Klickitat .
San Francisco 155 47.2 316 1881 T-OR Aquilo: 107697 prop yacht 1901 Boston, MA: 127 38.7 176 103 1950 O Aquilo: 206214 prop psgr 1909 Houghton 80 24.4 48 33 1940 A Arcadia: prop 1889 Arcadia 40 1891 O Arcadia [R 8] 229258 prop psgr 1929 Seattle 90 27.4 102 C-G Argo: 1883 Astoria, OR: 9.0 Argo: 203652 prop misc 1906 Port Blakely
The City of Seattle was a side-wheel driven steam-powered ferry built in 1888. This vessel was the first ferry to operate on Puget Sound. City of Seattle was also used in the San Francisco Bay area starting in 1913.
Motor Vessel Kalakala (pronounced / k ə ˈ l ɑː k ə ˌ l ɑː /) [1] was a ferry that operated on Puget Sound from 1935 until her retirement in 1967.. MV Kalakala was notable for her unique streamlined superstructure, art deco styling, and luxurious amenities.
Central Pacific ferry El Capitan was the largest ferry on San Francisco Bay when built in 1868. [5] Ferry Berkeley (served 1898–1958) at the San Diego Maritime Museum. The first railroad ferries on San Francisco Bay were established by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad and the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (SF&A), which were taken over by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in 1870 ...