Blue sky view, to historic ships moored Hyde Street Pier, Kalmath ferry propellers lying Aquatic Park Promenade, San Francisco
The propellers, displaying cavitation damage from imploding bubbles, belonged to the ferryboat, Klamath, launched in 1924 at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Yard, San Francisco, and operating as a car ferry between Richmond and San Rafael until retirement in 1956, when the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge opened. The historic ships moored at the Hyde Street Pier include the small Eppleton Hall paddle tug (left background), 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 paddle ferry Eureka (centre background) 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. In its day, the Eureka was the biggest and fastest double-ended ferry in the world. 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: Aquatic Park Promenade, at old propellers near Roundhouse, to Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, USA
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