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The Spaulding Marine Center, (formally the Spaulding Wooden Boat Center), in Sausalito, California, is a living museum where one can go back in time to experience the days when craftsmen and sailors used traditional skills to build, sail or row classic wooden boats on San Francisco Bay . The center offers tours, classes and special events, as ...
Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California, United States. It roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Avenue east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street. The F Market streetcar runs through the area, the Powell / Hyde cable car line runs to ...
Operation Sea-Spray. Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco may be to a bioweapon attack. [1][2][3][4]
Lurline. (1932) SS Lurline at Honolulu in the 1930s. Scrapped in Taiwan in 1987. SS Lurline was the third Matson Lines vessel to hold that name and the last of four fast and luxurious ocean liners that Matson built for the Hawaii and Australasia runs from the West Coast of the United States. Lurline ' s sister ships were SS Malolo, SS Mariposa ...
San Francisco. (CA-38) USS San Francisco (CL/CA-38), a New Orleans -class cruiser, was the second ship of three of the United States Navy named after the city of San Francisco, California. Commissioned in 1934, she was one of the most decorated ships of World War II, earning 17 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation.
Marina Green. The Marina Green in San Francisco, California, is a 74-acre (300,000 m 2) expanse of grass between Fort Mason and the Presidio. It is adjacent to San Francisco Bay, and this location provides good views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, Alcatraz Island, and parts of Marin County. Houses built mostly in the 1920s and 1930s ...
Draft. 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) Propulsion. S6G nuclear reactor. Complement. 12 officers, 115 men. Armament. 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes. USS San Francisco (SSN-711) is a Los Angeles -class nuclear submarine, the third ship or boat of the United States Navy to be named for San Francisco, California.
In 1967, the one-off Mull 30, a mahogany strip planked sloop designed for the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco scored an impressive win during the famous 1969 Miami to Nassau SORC race besting all the other class favorites and larger ocean classes. The success of the boat design was recreated known as Belvedere 30 in fiberglass by local ...