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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X61_ship-balclutha-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
"No one who has not been there can imagine the strain on the captain in trying to get around Cape Horn. This passage in the Balclutha was about my hardest time. - Captain Alfred Durkee, Master 1894-1899
Balclutha was a cargo ship, one of thous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X60_the-return-of-the-c-a-thayer-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
The 1895 lumber schooner C.A. Thayer has gone to a shipyard in Alameda, CA for installation of her masts and rigging. The last West Coast lumber schooler in existence, the ship will be undergoing restoration boat at the yard and here at the pier t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X5Z_schooner-c-a-thayer-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
She was a steady little ship. She wasn't too fast to sail and beat, or anything like that, but she was a solid-built ship. - Captain Emil Anderson, Master 1915
Thayer was one of 123 three-masted schooners built on the West Coast for the lumber…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X5Y_paddle-tug-eppleton-hall-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
"The Eppleton Hall is the handiest type of tug that was ever built." - Captain John Gibson, Sunderland, England.
Eppleton Hall is typical of the tugs used in the coal ports of Northern England to tow barges and shipping. Similar paddle tugs we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X5X_steam-tug-hercules-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
... we picked up six million feet of timber in a raft to tow South to San Diego. Long, slow lazy days, making no more than three knots. We rigged a fishing line and caught beautiful King Salmon on the way." - Albert Hody, Hercules Fireman.
Bui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X52_san-francisco-bay-ark-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
"Here a bath is a matter of stepping off the porch, a stroll is taken in a boat, and a splash of oars announces butcher and baker." - Albert B. Hunt in Houseboats and Houseboating. 1905
This little houseboat, referred to locally as an ark, wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X51_the-tubbs-cordage-building-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
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This building was the superintendent's office at the Tubbs company factory or ropewalk. This pioneer industrial factory was located on Iowa Street in the Portero district from 1856 until 1963.
Alfred Tubbs arrived in San…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X50_tug-sea-fox-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
My uncle Rudy Sommer had the Sea Fox for years. She was a lucky boat and was a good puller. Hillstorm built two of them, the Fox and the Captain, both real good boats." - Captain Harold Sommer, former Sea Fox mate.
The Sea Fox, a Miki class tu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X4Z_ferryboat-eureka-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
Eureka was originally launched as the Ukiah, a rail car and passenger ferry. She ran between San Francisco and Tiburon for the San Francisco and Northern Pacific Railroad, later the Northwestern Pacific.
Between 1920 and 1922 Ukiah was totally…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SEL_andreas-fountain_San-Francisco-CA.html
Then-owner William Roth selected Ruth Asawa, well known for her abstract, wire-woven sculptures, to design and create the centerpiece fountain for Ghirardelli Square. Although it was unveiled among some controversy in 1968, Asawa's objective was t…