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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Eureka
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| The ferryboat Eureka, built in 1890. |
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| STATS | | | Overall length | 299.5 feet | | Extreme Width | 78 feet | | Gross tonnage | 2420 | | Horsepower | 1500 | | Passengers | 2300 | | Automobiles | 120 | - Eureka is a wooden-hulled, sidewheel paddle steamboat.
- From the passenger deck up, she is nearly identical fore and aft. Her "double-end" design made disembarking quicker and easier.
- Eureka's large, "walking beam" steam engine remains intact.
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Powered by a four-story tall walking beam engine
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Did You Know?
The Aquatic Park Bathhouse building, a Depression-era, Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, was completed in 1939. The art deco building includes tile mosaics of fish, marble floors that resemble a sea chart, and interior walls painted with murals depicting strange creatures of the deep.
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Last Updated: July 25, 2006 at 00:22 EST |
