Alma

A wooden two-masted scow schooner built in 1891 by Fred Siemer, Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA, for James Peterson, San Francisco. Dimensions: 17,98x6,89 m [59'x22'6] and tonnage: 41 GRT and 39 NRT.
1891
Launched at Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA.
1927
Was equipped with an engine.
1957
Last year working as a shell dredger.
1959, August 17
The last San Francisco scow schooner was rescued from a mud bank where she had been laid up since 1957.
Presently preserved as a museum ship at the Hyde Street Pier in San Fransico.

Photograph taken while under sail.


Updated 1995-08-11 by Lars Bruzelius

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