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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Captain and Mrs. Harrison in their cabin aboard the British ship EVA MONTGOMERY, at Puget Sound, WA, ca. 1904.
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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Alma
 
The scow schooner Alma sailing on San Francisco Bay.
The scow schooner Alma, sailing on San Francisco Bay.
 
ALMA Statistics
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.

Click here to read more about ALMA's history, and the history of scow schooners on San Francisco Bay.

 
 
 
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A sailing ambassador, Alma represents the park at ports around San Francisco Bay.
Scow Schooner ALMA
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The Grace Quan, a Chinese shrimp junk, sailing on San Francisco Bay.

Did You Know?
In 2003 employees and volunteers, from San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and China Camp State Park in Northern California, built a replica of a Chinese Shrimp Junk and named it the GRACE QUAN.
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