San Francisco built streets over lost shipwrecks from the gold rush time

[creatmosfairy]

Hello!

It´s intresting to to read:

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016...-the-abandoned-buried-ships-of-the-gold-rush/

and i found one map, inside one new book, that the following "lost" shipwrecks were under the streets of San Francisco:

Area:
from San Francisco Fire Boat Pier-Rincon Point-Happy Valley-Transamerica Pyramid Buiilding-Sydney Town-Clark´s Point-Pier Nr.19

Ships:

Lighter
Candace
Othello
Galen
Rome
Henry Lee
Gallao
Autumn
Trescott
Salem
Panama
Byron
Thomas
Bennett
Tecumseh
Fame
Francis Ann
Stieglitz
Apollo
Niantic
General Harrison
Georgian
Louisa
Balance
Alida
Globe
Elisabeth
Brillant
Hardie
Arkansas
Ricardo
Magnolia
Almandralina
Cardova
Garnet
Noble
Bethel
Fortuna
Rhone
Philip Hone
Envoy
Dalmatica
Wm.Gray
Duyade
Japan
Palmyra


Only 7 of them were recovered: Lighter, Candace, Wm.Gray, Rome, Apollo, Niantic,General Harrison, when he built some subway railroads and built some tower buildings etc.

 

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[Bum Luck]

Not just in Frisco, but have seen piers built on derelicts which I suppose could have filled and graduated into streets - ?

This would be, presumably, before the time of super semis.

This was the time of millionaires who made their $ off the hard working miners.

 

[Megalodon]

Interesting. Our church was built with wood reclaimed from abandoned commercial fishing (mostly oyster) boats from the 1800's that once worked the Chesapeake Bay under sail.

 

[xaos]

Same for Seattle...


Nat geographic story on SF with maps

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/05/map-ships-buried-san-francisco/