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Photo, Print, Drawing Steam Schooner WAPAMA, Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 (Shoal Point), Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park TONGASS

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About this Item

Title

  • Steam Schooner WAPAMA, Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 (Shoal Point), Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Other Title

  • San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park TONGASS

Names

  • Historic American Engineering Record, creator
  • Price, James H
  • McCormick, Charles R
  • St. Helens Shipbuilding Company
  • "White Flyer Line" (L.A.-S.F. Navigation Company)
  • Alaska Transportation Company
  • Charles McCormick Lumber Company
  • Main Street Iron Works
  • W C Nickum and Sons
  • Lake Union Dry Dock and Construction Company
  • McCormick Steamship Company
  • Los Angeles-San Francisco Navigation Company
  • Gillespie, Claudine C
  • Gillespie, Albert E
  • Gillespie, Charles
  • Krag, Erik
  • Viking Steamship Company
  • Inter-Ocean Steamship Corporation
  • Jack Mendelsohn and Son
  • Fagerlund, Axel
  • Kortum, Karl
  • San Francisco Maritime Museum Association
  • Raynaud, Adrian F
  • Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company
  • Dring, Harry
  • Oakland Dock and Warehouse Company
  • Martinolich Ship Repair Company
  • Bethlehem Steel Shipyard
  • Merritt Ship Repair Company
  • Schneebeli, Walter
  • Lally, Richard J
  • Jessie, James C
  • Harbor Tug and Barge Company
  • Pacific Dry Dock and Repair Company
  • Reynolds, Zachary
  • Thompson, Lynn
  • Bray, Maynard
  • White Elephant Management
  • Tri-Coastal Marine
  • National Park Service
  • Forrest Products Laboratory
  • Thomas, William
  • Pacific Steam Schooner Foundation
  • Richardson, Kate
  • Christianson, Justine, transmitter
  • San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, sponsor
  • Kenkel, Craig, superintendent
  • Doll, Bill, project manager
  • Croteau, Todd A, project manager
  • Lockett, Dana, field team
  • Barton, Justin, field team
  • Trask, D'Arcy, field team
  • San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, sponsor
  • Christianson, Justine, transmitter
  • San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, sponsor
  • Croteau, Todd A, project manager
  • Lowe, Jet, photographer
  • Croteau, Todd A, photographer
  • Harrington, Kim, photographer

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

  • -  schooners
  • -  lumber industry
  • -  trade
  • -  carpentry
  • -  towing
  • -  transportation
  • -  steam engines
  • -  naval museums
  • -  rudders
  • -  propellers
  • -  cargo holds
  • -  galleys (ship kitchens)
  • -  boilers
  • -  furnaces
  • -  porthole windows
  • -  windlasses
  • -  winches
  • -  barges
  • -  maritime
  • -  preservatives
  • -  ruins
  • -  building deterioration
  • -  vessels
  • -  demolition (process)
  • -  California--Contra Costa County--Richmond

Latitude / Longitude

  • 37.80976,-122.42108

Notes

  • -  The Schooner was moved from Sausalito, California to Richmond, California
  • -  Significance: The last surviving example afloat of some 225 steam schooners specially designed for use in the 19th and 20th century Pacific Coast lumber trade and coastwise service. These vessels formed the backbone of maritime trade and commerce on the west coast ferrying lumber, general cargo, and passengers to and from urban centers and smaller coastal settlements. Shipyards along the coastline of California, Oregon and Washington built more than two hundred steam schooners. They were descendants of the sailing lumber schooners once common in the area and were conceived and built to serve in the interregional trade that flourished along North America's Pacific Coast. The men who built them took advantage of plentiful timber and built the ships out of wood, long after builders in most of the Western world had shifted to iron and steel construction. These wooden ships were a mainstay of the coastwise carrying trade for decades. WAPAMA is the sole survivor of the once numerous class.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1327
  • -  Survey number: HAER CA-67
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1914- 1915 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1959-1963 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1967 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1970 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1979 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1987-1988 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 2000 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 2013 Demolished

Medium

  • Photo(s): 179
  • Measured Drawing(s): 30
  • Data Page(s): 85
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 14

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HAER CAL,21-SAUS,1-

Source Collection

  • Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • ca1521

Rights Advisory

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  • image
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Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, James H Price, Charles R McCormick, St. Helens Shipbuilding Company, "White Flyer Line", Alaska Transportation Company, Charles Mccormick Lumber Company, et al., Lowe, Jet, Todd A Croteau, and Kim Harrington, photographer. Steam Schooner WAPAMA, Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 Shoal Point, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA. California Contra Costa County Richmond, 1968. translateds by Christianson, Justinemitter, and Christianson, Justinemitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca1521/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, C., Price, J. H., McCormick, C. R., St. Helens Shipbuilding Company, "White Flyer Line", Alaska Transportation Company [...] Croteau, T. A., Lowe, J., Croteau, T. A. & Harrington, K., photographer. (1968) Steam Schooner WAPAMA, Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 Shoal Point, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA. California Contra Costa County Richmond, 1968. Christianson, J. & Christianson, J., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca1521/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, et al., photographers by Lowe, Jet, Todd A Croteau, and Kim Harrington. Steam Schooner WAPAMA, Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 Shoal Point, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA. trans by Christianson, Justinemitter, and Christianson, Justinemitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca1521/>.