a FEW people said they were interested in my boat photos and clearly i dont have enough to do, so i'm doing this now! i'm going in chronological order through my collection of photos for now, but if people are interested in specific places i'll do whatever.
a note that all of these are just taken on an iphone, and i'm not a great photographer. don't come here for quality photos xoxo.
hope y'all enjoy though !
San Francisco Maritime, Hyde Street Pier. June 8, 2022.
The C.A. Thayer is a three-masted West Coast lumber schooner built near Eureka, CA in 1895. She hauled lumber up and down the West Coast of the Americas until 1912 when she was brought into the Alaska fisheries trade, hauling salt, salmon, and supplies into the Bering Sea until 1930. C.A. Thayer was laid up and out of use during the Great Depression, and was briefly used as an ammunition barge during the Second World War. After a brief return to the codfishing trade, the Thayer was purchased in 1957 by the state of California, restored, and brought to San Francisco. [Source]
The Eureka is a paddlewheel steamboat built in 1890 for the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway. She originally hauled freight cars across the Bay under the name Ukiah, and was converted to a passenger and car ferry and renamed Eureka in 1923. The ferry lines that Eureka ran dwindled in passengers following construction of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, and by the 1950s ferry service was extremely limited. Eureka was removed from service in 1957 after a mechanical breakage. [Source]
The Balclutha is a full-rigged, steel hulled ship built in 1886 near Glasgow, Scotland. Her maiden voyage took her around Cape Horn and to San Francisco for a cargo of California wheat. Balclutha remained in the grain trade until 1899, when she began transporting lumber from the Puget Sound to Australia. Balclutha was purchased by the Alaska Packers Association in 1902, rechristened Star of Alaska, and began transporting supplies and workers from San Francisco to Alaska. She was purchased in 1930 and starred in Mutiny on the Bounty as well as traveling the West Coast as an attraction "pirate ship." Balclutha was purchased by the San Francisco Maritime Museum in 1954, and restored. [Source]
The Hercules is a ocean-going steam tugboat built in 1907. She hauled sailing ships up through contrary winds to more northern ports, including at one point hauling the C.A. Thayer to Port Townsend, WA. On her return trips, Hercules would usually haul large rafts of lumber down from the Pacific Northwest to be milled in Southern California. She was eventually purchased by the Western Pacific Railroad to be used as a bay tug, retiring in 1962. Hercules languished unused until she was purchased by San Francisco Maritime in 1975. [Source]
The Eppleton Hall is a steam-powered sidewheeler tug built in 1914 in England. She was originally used to tug ocean-going coal vessels to and from Newcastle, UK, on the River Tyne. She is the last remaining example of a Tyne paddle tug. She operated on the Wear and Tyne rivers in England for her entire career. The Eppleton Hall was sold for scrap in 1967, but restored in 1969 to steam to San Francisco via the Panama Canal. In 1979, she was donated to the National Parks Service. [Source]
