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The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is located in San Francisco, California, United States. The park includes a fleet of historic vessels, a visitor center, a maritime museum, and a library/research facility. Formerly referred to as the San Francisco Maritime Museum, the collections were acquired by the National Park Service in ...
The District's San Francisco Maritime Museum building was built as a bathhouse in 1936 by the WPA; in streamline moderne style, its interior is decorated with fantastic, colorful murals. The Steamship Room illustrates the evolution of maritime technology from wind to steam, and there are displays of lithographic stones, scrimshaw, and whaling ...
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park — a maritime museum and open-air museum maritime park, in the Fisherman's Wharf district of San Francisco, California. The main article for this category is San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park .
In 2016, the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association acquired the Allen Knight collection. [3] The collection encompassed artifacts from fifty-seven sunken or disassembled vessels, boasting an impressive compilation of 9,000 ship photographs, a comprehensive research library, 250 log books, and 30 intricately crafted ship models.
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In early-1929, the Golden Gate Ferry Company merged with the competing auto ferry system of the Southern Pacific railroad, with ferry service to the Hyde Street Pier taken over by the new "Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries, Ltd." starting on May 1, 1929. [2] The pier is part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Various ...
While many of the piers were demolished, Piers 1 ½, 3 and 5 remain the most visible from the Ferry Building and Market Street, still the main thoroughfare of the city. In January 2001, San Francisco based Pacific Waterfront Partners, LLC was selected by the Port of San Francisco to redevelop the historic Piers 1½, 3 and 5. The project focuses ...
Alma is a flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 by Fred Siemer at his boatyard near Shipwright's Cottage at Hunters Point in San Francisco.Like the many other local scow schooners of that time, she was designed to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay, but now hauls people.