Blue sky view, from Aquatic Promenade, Thayer schooner and other historic ships moored Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, USA
' Thayer' (centre shot), built near Eureka, California, 1895, is one of the last surviving West Coast lumber schooners transporting timber from Washington, Oregon and Northern California to San Francisco. In 1912 it was converted to use in the Alaskan salmon industry, taking fishermen and workers to Alaska in April and returning to San Francisco with barrels of salted salmon in September. In the off-season it also carried timber to Australia, returning with coal, hardwood and copra. In 1925 the ship turned to cod-fishing in the Bering Sea, making its final cod-fishing voyage in 1950. The ship was restored, with 80 per cent of its timber replaced, 2004-07. It is currently missing masts and bowsprit. The white funnel Eppleton Hall paddle tug was built 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 white paddle ferry Eureka was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1890 and was a rail freight ferry called Ukiah before conversion 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. In its day, the Eureka was the biggest and fastest double-ended ferry in the world. The tall ship 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 1886 -1899. In 1902, re-named Star of Alaska, she too turned to the Alaskan salmon industry.
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Location: Historic ships, Hyde Street Pier from Aquatic Promenade, San Francisco, California, USA
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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