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C.A. Thayer, The Last of the Lumber Schooners documents the history of the ship from it's days sailing across the Pacific to it's acquisition by the National Park Service and it's restoration with San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
- Duration:
- 10 minutes, 49 seconds
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San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park Volunteers in Parks Docent Steve Johnson presents ship caulking: what it is, why it is important to San Francisco maritime history, and how to do it.
- Duration:
- 9 minutes, 16 seconds
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San Francisco Maritime is best known for our fleet of historic ships on Hyde Street Pier. But, this presentation is about ships from a different perspective – particularly, the perspective of the marine painter William Coulter, who was a prolific painter and newspaper artist and was considered the pre-eminent marine artist during the Age of Sail and the early 20th century.
- Duration:
- 10 minutes, 31 seconds
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Anne Monk and Sabrina Oliveros at San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park received the Team Award of the Freeman Tilden Awards for Excellence in Interpretation and Education for bringing the voices of San Francisco's waterfront's past to life in a new podcast series.
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 59 seconds
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San Francisco, CA – Over eighty years ago, San Franciscans, with the help of the federal WPA, realized a decades-old dream: building a palace for the people on the City’s northern waterfront. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park salutes that legacy with a 15-minute documentary that tells the story of this iconic Art Moderne building.
- Duration:
- 15 minutes, 15 seconds
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San Francisco became the city it is today because of the Gold Rush, when thousands of people arrived on ships to go search for gold. But what happened to these ships? Many of them were buried under neighborhoods of San Francisco, becoming a part of the city's history. Learn about four Gold Rush ships with Collections interns, Kami Hagemeyer and Elliot Lockwood, as they interview maritime historians and archeologists and explore the city, detailing the ships' histories with photographs and more.
- Duration:
- 13 minutes, 3 seconds
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Park Ranger David Pelfrey explains a traditional, wooden ship maintenance task: caulking the deck to make the vessel watertight.
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 31 seconds
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Park Ranger Peter Kasin explains how sea chanteys were used to coordinate work aboard vessels. Like to join a chantey sing in the park? Check here for info: https://go.nps.gov/1b9c2q
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 50 seconds
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Park Ranger Anne Monk takes you below deck aboard the 1895 schooner C.A. Thayer for a look at the vessel's knees.
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 8 seconds
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Sheltered-in Park Ranger Peter Kasin leads a "virtual sing-along" of the popular 19th century hauling chantey "Reuben Ranzo" to lift your spirits - and maybe help you get through a few of those projects around the house!
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 36 seconds
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Ranger Peter Kasin presents the second in his series of chanteys for sheltered-in visitors. This one is called "Sacramento," and it was sung while turning the capstan to help coordinate the work of weighing anchor.
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 55 seconds
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Ranger Kasin presents "We're All Surrounded," a cotton-screwing chantey sung by “screwmen" who, in southern U.S. ports, labored to turn large jackscrews which were used to tightly pack bales of cotton into the holds of cargo vessels.
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 31 seconds
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A group of 15 images of a unique, waterfront area of San Francisco now known as Aquatic Park. They are from the park’s collection spanning eleven decades from the 1850s through the 1970s.
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 32 seconds
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A series of historic photos with brief captions depicting the journey of trees cut for lumber along the California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia coasts. The lumber, much of it Douglas fir and Redwood, was brought to San Francisco by sail and steam schooners. Whole forests of lumber went into the reconstruction of San Francisco in the wake of the 1906 Earthquake.
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 11 seconds
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Beginning in 1849, dozens of shipyards in San Francisco built and repaired wooden vessels. This presentation is part of "The Waterfront" exhibit located in the park's visitor center. Please visit!
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 27 seconds
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A diverse group of storytellers—from Laney College ESL (English as a Second Language) students to Sundance-and-Emmy award winning filmmaker Judy Irving—gathered at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park to share their narratives in the belief that that stories matter.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 55 seconds
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In April 2015 the crew moved a longboat from Hyde Street Pier back onto Balclutha. Chris Jannini, Supervisory Marine Carpenter, took these photos.
The boat being moved is one of two replica longboats built by Ray Speck for the park over 25 years ago. The two boats have been maintained in place on Balclutha since then but some small sections of the gunwales had developed rot so both were removed two years ago for rehabilitation by Small Boat Shop crew and volunteers.
Most vessels similar to Balclutha carried two or more boats of this type. They were used for transporting men and materials when in harbor and could also be used under oars to tow the ship if necessary.
The ship capstans and traditional block and tackle were used to place the longboat back on her skids amidships. The process took about two hours.
- Duration:
- 50 seconds
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How the park's Small Boat Shop bends planks for the restoration of the motor launch Eva B.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 33 seconds
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A brief introduction about Eugene Field followed by a reading of his poem, "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," a poem of three little fishermen in a beautiful, dreamy sea.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 34 seconds
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Ranger Peter Kasin begins a series of short talks called "The Human Stories of Dock Labor" in which he will review books about dock labor. In the first segment, Ranger Kasin introduces the series. You can look up the books mentioned in these talks at https://keys.bywatersolutions.com/
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 32 seconds
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In the second video in this series, Ranger Kasin discusses a hiring practice called the “Shape Up” as employed on the New York and New Jersey waterfronts. You can look up the books mentioned in these talks at https://keys.bywatersolutions.com/ For more info about this segment, check out this post on the Around The Horn blog: https://go.nps.gov/laborblogshapeup
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 4 seconds
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Ranger Chris Edwards takes us on a walk along the 1890 ferryboat Eureka's passenger deck, and then climbs up to the dome deck for a spectacular view.
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 23 seconds
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"maggie and milly and molly and may" was written by e.e. cummings, a 20th-century poet known for his novel use of language and visual form. He is perhaps one of the most approachable of the avant-garde poets, and this poem is one of my 7-year-daughter's favorites just as it was one of mine as a child. We created the animation together using the iOS app Stop Motion Studio. Hope you enjoy!
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 4 seconds
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Ranger Chris Edwards walks us through the 1907 steam tug Hercules. He begins with a look down into the engine room, navigates to the boiler room, then steps out onto the deck for a look around the park.
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 43 seconds
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Discover how the USS San Francisco’s heroic WWII Guadalcanal campaign links four national parks, stretches from the Pacific to New England, and is preserved in both a windswept overlook and a controlled museum facility.
- Duration:
- 12 minutes, 42 seconds
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Discover the complex legacy of the San Carlos - a Spanish ship that sailed into San Francisco Bay on August 5, 1775, leaving the names for Angel Island and Alcatraz, the first European map of the Bay, and a path for colonists who would help establish the city we know today.
- Duration:
- 9 minutes, 20 seconds
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Seasonal deckhands are learning a traditional skill of maintaining the ropes on a sailing vessel. At San Francisco Maritime NHP, in addition to preserving historic ships, traditional skills are preserved. From apprentice to captain, everyone and every skill were relied upon to get the ship safely to port. Sometime during a voyage when things were reasonably routine, experienced seamen turned their attention to mending sails, reeving new running rigging or splicing lizards among a myriad of things that can be done at sea. In this video, a deckhand describes the process of worming, parceling and serving a steel line to keep it from getting wet and corroding. For a more detailed description of Worm, Parcel and Serve, visit our website, https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/wormparcelserve.htm
- Duration:
- 33 seconds
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