Blue sky view tree standing waterfront grass with people to Aquatic Park Cove and Hyde Street Pier historic ships, San Francisco
The Aquatic Park Historic District is part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. The park includes a beach, grassy area known as Victorian Park (seen here), sandy beach and man-made lagoon (Aquatic Park Cove) on the site of the former Black Point Cove. The Cove is enclosed by the Municipal Pier (left background) and the Hyde Street Pier, with historic ships, right background. The historic ships visible 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 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: Victorian Park, Aquatic Park Historic District, to Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Bay Waterfront
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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