Berkeley
The Berkeley was built in 1898 to operate as a ferry on San Francisco Bay. The lower decks are used as a museum.
One of my favorite areas in the entire museum was the lounge on the upper deck of the Berkeley, perhaps because it was so easy to picture what it might have looked like full of passengers 100 years ago.
USS Dolphin
The only outside photo I took of this submarine is the one at the top of this post. The Dolphin was launched in 1968 as a diesel-electric research submarine and holds the record for the deepest dive ever made by a submarine. It was far more luxurious than the B-39, but it was still pretty austere.
The periscope and the view through it.
Medea
The Medea is a 1904 steam yacht owned as a private vessel by somebody with a lot more money than I have.
Californian
This is California’s Official Tall Ship. It’s a replica of the topsail schooner C.W. Lawrence, a revenue cutter used to enforce tariff laws in the mid-1800s. The C.W. Lawrence was the first government ship stationed in California after it became a state. It was shipwrecked in a storm near San Francisco in 1851. The Californian is the ship on the right in the above photo.
Mary Ann
The Mary Ann is a 32′ Monterey fishing boat built in 1930 and in use until 2002. Its owner was born in the Little Italy section of San Diego. Another fishing boat, the La Diana sits on the dock behind the Mary Ann in the photo below, next to the Californian.
The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy was built in 1902 to carry provisions out to ships. It was built for speed, since the first boat to reach an arriving ship would get the most business. She was so fast, that she raced in several local yacht races.
We looked at the ships and relaxed along the shore of San Diego Bay for a couple hours until it was time to think about getting lunch and getting to the airport.