San Francisco Maritime

https://www.nps.gov/safr/index.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Maritime_National_Historical_Park 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. Established in 1988, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park celebrates America’s maritime heritage on the Pacific Coast. Our 50-acre park has grown around Aquatic Park Cove, a protected area in the stunning San Francisco Bay. As you explore the cove and the historic landmarks around it, you will experience the sights, sounds, and stories of the city’s seafaring past. The park is located within the city limits of San Francisco, in the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood, on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. Maritime Museum The Maritime Museum is open Wednesday to Sunday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The museum is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Days. There is no admission fee. San Francisco Maritime Visitor Center In the San Francisco Maritime Visitor Center, National Park Service staff and volunteers are available to answer questions and provide information. Watch the park film and visit “The Waterfront” exhibit, an interactive walk through six historical waterfront neighborhoods. The visitor center is located at the intersection of Hyde and Jefferson Streets in San Francisco. 1886 Square-Rigger Balclutha The bow and masts of a 19th century sailing ship. The 1886 square-rigged Balclutha is moored at Hyde Street Pier. The Maritime Museum in the Aquatic Park Bathhouse Building A red-roofed building with water and a pier behind it. The Maritime Museum, Aquatic Park cove, and Hyde Street Pier. Hyde Street Pier A group of vessels moored at at pier. A view of Hyde Street Pier, Coit Tower and downtown San Francisco. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Visitor Center An open double door into a brick building. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Visitor Center Balclutha's Bowsprit and Figurehead A close up of a spar on the bow of a sailing ship. Balclutha's Bowsprit and Figurehead A Rainbow Adorns Hyde Street Pier A group of vessels moored at a pier with a rainbow. A Rainbow Adorns Hyde Street Pier Find Your Park 2019 ad campaign starts with parks in NYC and San Francisco In the fall of 2019, the National Park Foundation rolled out new ads in San Francisco and New York for the Find Your Park campaign. From September 23 through October 28, a series of digital and static outdoor ads appeared in bus shelters, billboards, and other spaces in the city of New York and San Francisco. display ads featuring John Muir National Historic Site Diamond NN Cannery: A Case Study The Alaska Packers Association started the Diamond NN <NN> Cannery after it absorbed a small saltery that was built in 1890 on the southside of the Naknek River, adjacent to a small creek. The cannery continues to operate over a century later, now owned by Trident Seafoods. In 2015, historian and former fish house slimmer Katherine Ringsmuth launched the <NN> Cannery History Project to collect, share, and preserve the stories of cannery workers here. Aerial view of cannery on a wide shore, with large warehouse buildings and smaller structures 2017 Recipients: George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service Meet the recipients of the 2017 George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service. These award recipients are recognized for their exceptional dedication and service to parks and programs. Boy outside holding a tool onto a wooden post. Pacific Border Province The Pacific Border straddles the boundaries between several of Earth's moving plates on the western margin of North America. This region is one of the most geologically young and tectonically active in North America. The generally rugged, mountainous landscape of this province provides evidence of ongoing mountain-building. Drakes Estero in Point Reyes National Seashore. NPS photo/Sarah Codde Series: Canneries of Alaska Canneries were built in response to the environment. This series is a summary of some of Alaska's canneries and the landscape features that defined where and how they developed. The overall period of significance for canneries in Alaska begins in 1878, when the first two canneries opened, and ends in 1936, when salmon production peaked. While some of these canneries no longer exist, the landscapes continue to tell of the history and importance of that period in the commercial fishing industry. Warehouse-type buildings cluster on wooden piers along a shoreline, as seen from the water. Series: Physiographic Provinces Descriptions of the physiographic provinces of the United States, including maps, educational material, and listings of Parks for each. George B. Dorr, founder of Acadia National Park 2020 Freeman Tilden Award Recipients The Freeman Tilden Awards for Excellence in Interpretation and Education recognize an individual and a team for excellence, achievement, and innovation in the profession of interpretation, education and visitor engagement. Congratulations to the national 2020 Freeman Tilden Award recipients, Justin Olson of Apostles Island National Lake Shore, and Anne Monk and Sabrina Oliveros of San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park. Photo of Anne Monk and Sabrina Oliveros smiling on top of a ship with a marina in the background. Julia Ann Shelton Shorey According to family memory, Julia Ann Shelton Shorey’s grandfather, Samuel Shelton, was brought west as an enslaved person in the 1840s and ultimately purchased his own freedom and that of his family in the new state of California. Well-to-do Black family of 5 pose for professional photo wearing fine Victorian clothing Series: Women's History in the Pacific West - California-Great Basin Collection Biographies from Northern California, Central Valley, Sierra Nevada Mountains and Nevada Map of northern California, Central Valley, Sierra Nevada Mountains and Nevada Mysterious Paint Can of San Francisco’s Maritime Museum San Francisco’s Aquatic Park Bathhouse is filled with marvelous sea-themed murals, including memorable blue fish. As a grand California Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, the bathhouse art showcased the New Deal’s emphasis on public art for the community. Painted by Ann Sonia Medalie, Shirley Staschen Triestley and other women artists, they took part in a radical vision of “home” that embraced San Francisco’s bohemian culture. Cylindrical metal can with yellow paint remnants and note that reads “Flat Blue Fish, Panel - #26.” Series: Home and Homelands Exhibition: Resistance How have the expectations of others shaped your life? Ideas about home and gender are intimately connected. This has often meant confining women to a particular space – the home – and solely to domestic roles – a wife, a mother, a homemaker. But women have long pushed against this. Some sought to reclaim their Indigenous ideas of home. These stories of resistance conclude the exhibit precisely because they expand what counts as a home and women’s relationship to it. Thick white paper peeled back to reveal collage of women. "Home and Homelands: Resistance." A Wartime Mural Preserved Wartime artwork was discovered and preserved beneath the bleachers of the Maritime Museum. Kaiulani Logbooks Discovered The Kaiulani logbooks offer a glimpse into the daily lives of sailors on their voyage from Aberdeen, WA to Durban, South Africa to Hobart, Tasmania. The logbooks date from 1941-42, and this was the last American crew to sail around Cape Horn in a commercial square-rigged sailing vessel. Historic photo from 1942 of the three-masted ship Kaiulani sailing on the ocean. The Red Stack Tugboat Ledgers Two ledger books in the park's collection offer new insight into the history of the steam boat tug Hercules. Waiting for the Ball to Drop The items in San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park's collections offer a variety of stories of American maritime history. One of these items is the time ball, a visual time signal for ships in the harbor. This time ball was dropped from the top of the signal-pole located on Telegraph Hill to help sailors throughout the San Francisco Bay keep track of the day. historic photo of Pioneer Park Observatory with a time ball on Telegraph Hill. Maritime Experiences Told First Hand First-hand accounts of sailing voyages can be found in journals and logbooks in San Francisco Maritime's Museum Collection. Sail back in time by reading a few of these first-hand accounts of maritime voyages. detail of a logbook with an illustration of a ship's sails

National Historical Park California National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior San Francisco Maritime The Aquatic Park Historic District includes walkways, gardens, a cable car turnaround, and the Streamline Moderne-style bathhouse building (upper left) completed in 1939. Visitor center exhibits and artifacts tell stories of seafarers on the West Coast. Historic vessels moored at Hyde Street Pier include (counterclockwise from left) Eureka, Balclutha, Eppleton Hall, and C.A. Thayer. For a taste of the sailor’s life, board Balclutha (above) and other vessels at Hyde Street Pier. Above: Historic engine plate. Right: Restored figurehead from the ship Centennial. Along Hyde Street Pier park staff and volunteers mend lines, varnish brightwork, and tend puffing steam engines. Rangers lead a variety of programs, even from high in Bal­clutha’s rigging. The Age of Sail en­viron­­men­tal living program bunks school children overnight on historic vessels. At the small-boat shop craftspeople shape and bend steam-softened planks to repair historic boats and build replicas. nications at sea, and more. An interactive exhibit explores New York–San Francisco ocean routes. The spectacular lens from the Farallon lighthouse introduces the West Coast navigation story. The Aquatic Park Bathhouse building, designed in Streamline Moderne style, has Federal Art Project murals from the 1930s. African American artist Sargent Johnson carved the stone facade. San Francisco and the Sea Native Americans paddled the bay in reed canoes. Euro­pean explorers charted the coastline. In 1776 the Spanish settled at the site of present-day San Francisco. Ships soon brought seal and sea otter hunters. In the 1820s whalers arrived, and Boston merchant ships began trading for California cowhides. float. They often aban­doned their vessels in the shallows. Remains of such vessels lie today beneath the city’s financial district. “It is a city of ships, piers, and tides,” wrote Chilean journalist Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna in 1852. “Large ships with railings a good distance from the beach served as residences, stores, and restaurants.” In 1849, after the discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada foot­ hills, the world rushed in. That year over 750 ships arrived in San Francisco. Some fortune-seekers came on sleek, Ameri­can-­built clipper ships, but most sailed in on just about anything that could The Gold Rush brought merchants, laborers, and craftspeople from around the world. By the 1870s California’s burgeoning grain trade lured big European sailing ships like Balclutha. Fleets of schooners like C.A. Thayer arrived with Douglas fir from Puget Sound. Flat-bottomed scow schooners like Alma sailed up the Delta into California’s Central Valley. They delivered plows and seed, sewing machines and cloth, coal and oil. And they returned stacked with jute bags of hard white wheat, well suited for long-distance shipping. On San Fran­cisco’s docks the bags were hand-loaded into the holds of sailing ships bound for Europe. For a time, a dazzling array of vessels crowded the San Fran­cisco waterfront: great sailing ships, coastal passenger steamers, military craft, and local working boats. One by one these ships became obsolete but nonetheless treasured for their beauty and the stories they told. In 1988 Con­gress established San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park to protect and preserve America’s maritime past. At San Francisco Maritime National His­torical Park you will experience the sights, sounds, and textures of the city’s seafaring past. You will learn what life was like for the people who made their living at sea. From the wooden decks of Balclutha, a square-rigger that rounded Cape Horn 17 times, duck into the cramped cabins where sailors sheltered during months at sea. In the hold of the coastal schooner C.A. Thayer walk along the curving sides where freshly cleaned fish layered with salt were stacked to the ceiling. Visitor center ex­hibits and handson activities tell you about the Gold Rush, shipwrecks, commu- Left: Full-rigged ship Balclutha at Hyde Street Pier. Background: Aquatic Cove viewed from the park’s Municipal Pier. ALL IMAGES—NPS / TIM CAMPBELL AND STEVE DANFORD Landmark Building E houses collections of artifacts, documents, vessel plans, photo­graphs, motion picture film, books, periodicals, and oral histories for studying detailed maritime history. After the grain trade diminished and railroads reached the lumber mills and valleys, many sailing ves­sels were abandoned or scrapped. The lucky ones were refitted for other careers. Balclutha and C.A. Thayer went on to supply Alaska fisheries in the late 1800s and early 1900s. American intercoastal steamer traffic exploded after the Panama Canal opened in 1914. West Coast shipyards opened to meet the demands of World Wars I and II. Historic Vessels of Hyde Street Pier Today the pier and several historic vessels moored here are open to visitors. Five vess