Blue sky view, from Aquatic Park Promenade, historic ships Balcutha, Hercules, Eppleton Hall, at Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco
The historic ships moored at the Hyde Street Pier include the white stack Eppleton Hall paddle tug, built in 1914 by Hepple and Company at South Shields for Lambton and Hetton Collieries, and designed to tow sea-going colliers from the sea to the wharf-side and back, primarily on the River Wear at Sunderland, but also to and from the River Tyne. The tug operated on the River Wear until 1964, then worked at Seaham Harbour until being sold for scrap in 1967. It was rebuilt in Sunderland in 1969, prior to en epic crossing of the Atlantic under its own steam in a six-month journey to San Francisco via the Panama Canal. The red stack Hercules, built in 1907 for the Shipowners and Merchants Company, San Francisco, was an ocean-going tug that towed barges, sailing ships and log rafts between Pacific ports. In 1924 it was acquired by the Western Pacific Railroad, shuttling rail car barges across san Francisco Bay, until replaced by a diesel tug in 1957. Acquired by the San Francisco Maritime Park in 1975, it was restored 1977. The white paddle ferry Eureka was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1890 and was a rail freight ferry called Ukiah before being converted to a car ferry and re-named Eureka in 1923. It was a floating portion of US Highway 101, connecting Sausalito to San Francisco until 1941. The opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937 put an end to car ferries to and from Sausalito. The three-masted Balclutha was a steel hull cargo ship registered at Glasgow in 1886. It carried cargoes of coal, grain, pottery, Chile nitrates, Scotch Whisky back and forth from California to Europe, its 25 man crew sailing round Cape Horn 17 times between 1886 and 1899, when the ship was re-registered in Hawaii. In 1902, re-named Star of Alaska, it ferried salmon cannery workers and canned salmon from Alaska to San Francisco. Featuring in the 1935 film 'Mutiny on the Bounty', it was bought in 1954 by San Francisco Maritime Museum and moved to Hyde Street Pier in 1988.
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Location: Historic ships at Hyde Street Pier, from Aquatic Park Promenade, San Francisco, California, USA
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