Balclutha

The 1886 square-rigged ship Balclutha.
Overall length 301 feet
Length of deck 256.5 feet
Beam 38.6 feet
Depth 22.7 feet
Gross tonnage 1689
Height of mainmast 145 feet

• Balclutha is a three-masted, steel-hulled, square-rigged ship built to carry a variety of cargo all over the world.

• Launched in 1886 by the Charles Connell and Company shipyard near Glasgow, Scotland, the ship carried goods around Cape Horn (tip of South America) 17 times.

• It took a crew of about 26 men to handle the ship at sea with her complex rigging and 25 sails.
  

C A Thayer

Extreme Length 219 feet
Length on Deck 156 feet
Beam 36 feet
Depth 11.38 feet
Gross tonnage 453
Height of mainmast 105 feet

• The CA Thayer is a wooden-hulled, three-masted schooner, designed for carrying lumber.

• She was built in 1895 in Northern California at Hans D. Bendixsen's shipyard in Fairhaven, CA.

• The original hull was made of dense, old-growth Douglas fir carefully chosen for shipbuilding.

• She sailed with a small crew consisting of four seamen, two mates, a cook, and the captain.

Once, hundreds of sailing schooners carried lumber to San Francisco from Washington, Oregon and the California redwood Coast. Built in 1895, C.A. Thayer was once part of that mighty Pacific Coast fleet. Today, she is a rare survivor from the days when strong canvas sails billowed over tall deckloads of freshly-milled fir and redwood.

Eureka

Overall length 299.5 feet
Extreme Width 78 feet
Gross tonnage 2420
Horsepower 1500
Passengers 2300
Automobiles 120

• Eureka is a wooden-hulled, sidewheel paddle steamboat.

• From the passenger deck up, she is nearly identical fore and aft. Her "double-end" design made disembarking quicker and easier.

• Eureka's large, "walking beam" steam engine remains intact.

Alma

Overall length 80 feet
Registered length 59 feet
Beam 22.6 feet
Depth 4 feet
Gross tonnage 41.76
Height of foremast 67 feet

• Alma is a wooden-hulled scow schooner built in 1891 to carry bulk cargo.
  

• The flat-bottomed hull was designed to navigate the shallow waters of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta and to rest on the bottom at low tide.

• With few bridges and connecting roads, scow schooners delivered goods all over the Bay and Delta much as trucks do today.

• By 1880 there were 250 sailing scows on San Francisco Bay.