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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?
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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Last Updated: July 25, 2006 at 00:22 EST |
