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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Alma
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| The scow schooner Alma, sailing on San Francisco Bay. |
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| STATS | | | 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.
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Afternoon Sailing Adventures on San Francisco Bay
Go sailing with a National Park Service Ranger
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Scow Schooner Alma
History of scow schooners on San Francisco Bay
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Did You Know?
A modern container ship slips behind Balclutha on its way to port. Ocean routes are still the major highways of the world. Balclutha, moored at San Francisco Maritime NHP, was an ocean-going cargo ship for 43 years, between 1886 and 1929.
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Last Updated: July 25, 2006 at 00:22 EST |
