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has been served by ferries of all types for over 150 years. John Reed established a

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ferry service in 1826. Although the construction of the

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and the

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led to the decline in the importance of most ferries, some are still in use today for both commuters and tourists.

The Creek Route ferries (1851-1937)

Sidewheelers Capital and Contra Costa at Davis Street Landing

One of the earliest ferry routes ran between

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and

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on what was called the "creek route". The name derived from the Oakland landing site located at the foot of Broadway where Jack London Square is today, fronting on what is today called the Oakland Estuary, an inlet of San Francisco Bay. The estuary, which in the 1800s included what is today's Lake Merritt, was the "creek". In 1851,Ford (1977) pp.18-19 Captain Thomas Gray, grandfather of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan, began the first regular ferry service to San Francisco from the East Bay. Service started with the stern-wheel Sacramento River packet ''General Sutter'' and the small iron steam ferry ''Kangaroo''. Service was augmented in 1852 by ''Caleb Cope'', the small ferry ''Hector'' powered by a steam sawmill engine, and the river packets ''Jenny Lind'' and ''Boston''. ''Boston'' burned that year and was replaced first by William Brown's San Joaquin River packet ''Erastus Corning'' and then by Charles Minturn's river packet ''Red Jacket''. In 1853, Minturn formed the

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and had the ferry ''Clinton'' built expressly for trans-bay service. A second ferry, ''Contra Costa'' began operating over the route in 1857. Contra Costa Steam Navigation Company acquired San Antonio Steam Navigation Company with ferries ''San Antonio'' and ''Oakland'' by merger before being purchased by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad (SF&O) in 1865.Ford (1977) pp.22-27 Ferries continued operating along the Creek Route under railroad ownership until 1937.

Railroad ferries (1862–1958)

The first railroad ferries on San Francisco Bay were established by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad and the

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(SF&A), which were taken over by the

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(CPRR) in 1870 to become an integral part of the

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. The earliest railroad ferries ran from

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and from Alameda Terminal when

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was still a peninsula. The ferry pier at

was greatly enlarged to form the

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. These railroad ferries mostly carried passengers, not trains, although there was some ferrying of freight cars to San Francisco. When the Central Pacific re-routed the Sacramento to Oakland segment of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1876, a ferry across the

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was established, and the world's largest ferryboat, the Solano was built (later joined by a sister ferry, the slightly larger ''Contra Costa''), to serve the crossing. This

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actually carried whole trains up to 48 freight cars or 24 passenger cars with their locomotives. These ferries became part of the

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(SP) when it assumed many of the facilities of its affiliate, the Central Pacific. These large train ferries were idled when a railway bridge was completed over the Carquinez Strait in November, 1930. When trains reached Oakland, freight cars were loaded aboard ferries from Long Wharf on Oakland Point beginning in 1870. Freight car ferry loading switched to the Oakland Mole in 1881. After 1890 freight cars were delivered to the San Francisco Belt Railroad ferry slip at the foot of Lombard and East Streets. Belt Railroad tracks were later dual-gauged to also carry cars from the narrow gauge

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and

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s. The

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transit company established its own ferry service in 1903 between the Ferry Building in San Francisco and its own pier and wharf (" mole") on the Oakland shoreline, located just south of what is today the eastern approach to the

. Ferries began serving north bay rail connections with the Petaluma and Haystack Railroad in 1864.

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(SF&NP) and

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(P&SR) Stindt (1985) p.128 ferries connected Petaluma River landing locations with San Francisco. North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) ferries connected SausalitoDickson (1974) p.139 with San Francisco, and SF&NP ferries later sailed from Tiburon. Some of these ferries operated on

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(NWP) schedules from 1907 to 1938.Stindt (1978) p.256 The Napa Valley Railroad established service in 1865 and connected with ferry boat service in

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. Monticello Steamship Company began operating ferries between Vallejo and San Francisco in 1895, and began coordinating with train schedules in 1905. Golden Gate Ferry Company gained control of Monticello in 1927 and, after merging with Southern Pacific, discontinued ferry service to Vallejo in 1937.

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used a ferry to cross the

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and

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s between Mallard and Chipps. Service began in 1912 with the wooden ferry ''Bridgit'' carrying six interurban cars. ''Bridgit'' burned in 1913 and was replaced by the steel ferry ''Ramon'' with the same car capacity. Santa Fe and Western Pacific (WP) both ran passenger ferries connecting their east bay terminals to San Francisco; but both discontinued ferry service in 1933. Southern Pacific maintained a dominant position in Bay ferry service by gaining control of the

(SPC) ferries in 1887, the Northwestern Pacific ferries in 1929, and the Petaluma and Santa Rosa ferries in 1932. After the

and

opened in 1936 and 1937, Southern Pacific passenger ferry service was reduced to four routes: Ferry Building to Oakland Pier, Ferry Building to Alameda Pier, Hyde Street to Sausalito, and the Northwestern Pacific Ferry Building to Sausalito service. The route from Hyde Street to Sausalito was suspended in 1938 by order of the State Railroad Commission, the last ferry to Alameda ran in 1939, and the Ferry Building to Sausalito service ended February 1941. Many of the large passenger ferries were idled until

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, when they were mobilized by the federal government to transport military personnel around the bay and shipyard workers from San Francisco to Marinship and

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. The last Southern Pacific ferry ran between Oakland and San Francisco on 29 July 1958.

Auto ferries (1909–1956)

Although earlier ferries had carried teams and wagons, ''Melrose'' was launched in 1909 as the first San Francisco Bay ferry built with an unobstructed lower deck specifically intended for automobiles, and an upper deck for passengers. Southern Pacific ferries ''Melrose'' and ''Thoroughfare'' were designated to carry automobiles to and from San Francisco on the original Creek Route in 1911. Southern Pacific built new facilities to shift auto routing to the Oakland Pier in 1921 and purchased three new

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. In 1922,

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(GG) began transporting automobiles between Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco and Sausalito Ferry Terminal in

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. Southern Pacific purchased three more auto ferries with a ferry route linking San Francisco with a

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connection to the

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in 1925. Golden Gate established another route between Hyde Street and

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in 1927. Southern Pacific built six diesel-electric ferries and gained control of Golden Gate's ''Golden''-prefix ferries to form the subsidiary Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Company in 1929. Another auto ferry pier operated at the foot of Broadway. Southern Pacific-Golden Gate auto ferries ceased operation shortly after the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge opened. Most of the ferries were sold for use in Puget Sound, but a few were purchased by the Richmond-San Rafael Ferry Company to shuttle automobiles between Richmond and San Rafael. This last surviving auto ferry route ended when the

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opened in 1956.

Cross-Bay air service (1914–1986)

In 1914, a short-lived seaplane ferry ran between San Francisco and Oakland. From 1930 to 1933, a more successful trans-Bay seaplane ferry was operated by Air Ferries Ltd. It ran from Pier 5 on the San Francisco waterfront to a shoreline barge docked at the foot of Franklin Street along the Oakland Estuary. It also operated between San Francisco and Vallejo. A fatal accident in 1933 put an end to the service. During the 1960s, SFO Helicopter transported passengers to and from the San Francisco and Oakland airports from various locales around the bay, including the San Francisco waterfront and the

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. After ceasing operations in the 1970s it briefly resumed service in 1983 before going out of business in 1986.

Rebirth of ferries (1959–present)

With the abandonment of the last railroad ferries, there was a brief period 1958-1962 with no commuter ferry service at all on the Bay (though tourist-oriented service to Angel Island began in 1959). In March 1962 Red & White Fleet, then known as Harbor Carriers, started commute-hour ferry service from Tiburon to the

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. During a strike by Harbor Carriers employees in 1969, the

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chartered a boat to provide replacement service; the success of this experiment led the District to establish

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and begin operating service from Sausalito to the Ferry Building in 1970. Today Golden Gate Ferry operates operates modern high speed ferryboats between San Francisco and four different landings in

. In 1973

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opened to the public as a museum and ferry service from San Francisco began under a concession granted by the

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. The

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caused a section of the Bay Bridge road deck to collapse, closing it to all traffic. In response, ferry service was quickly set up between piers in Oakland and Alameda and San Francisco (following almost the same path as the 19th-century "creek route" ferries). This service continued to operate with sponsorship from the City of Alameda and Port of Oakland after the bridge reopened the following month. In 2011 the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) was set up to take over the Oakland/Alameda route and other routes between San Francisco and the

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, forming the San Francisco Bay Ferry system; over the following decade it added several additional routes. WETA contracts with the private Blue & Gold Fleet for the operation of these services. Blue & Gold additionally operates its own tourist-oriented ferry and sightseeing services; together these make the company the largest ferry transportation provider in the Bay Area .

Current ferry routes

Annual ridership

Ferryboat roster

Present

*Golden Gate (7 vessels) ** ''Golden Gate (II)'' ** ''Del Norte'' ** ''Marin'' ** ''Mendocino'' ** ''Napa'' ** ''San Francisco'' ** ''Sonoma'' *WETA (16 vessels) ** ''Argo'' ** ''Bay Breeze'' ** ''Carina'' ** ''Cetus'' ** ''Dorado'' ** ''Gemini'' ** ''Hydrus'' ** ''Intintoli'' ** ''Lyra'' ** ''Mare Island'' ** ''Peralta'' ** ''Pisces'' ** ''Pyxis'' ** ''Scorpio'' ** ''Taurus'' ** ''Vela'' *Angel Island–Tiburon ** ''Angel Island'' ** ''Bonita'' ** ''Tamalpais'' *Blue & Gold (20+ vessels) ** ''Golden Bear'' ** ''Oski'' ** ''Royal Star'' ** ''Zelinsky'' *Red & White (5 vessels) ** ''Enhydra'' ** ''Harbor Princess'' ** ''Harbor Queen'' ** ''Royal Prince'' ** ''Zalophus'' *NWP ** ''Ukiah''

Past

Historical ferryboat table

Relocated ferryboats

Several ferries that had seen service on San Francisco Bay were relocated after the bay bridges were built. ''Yosemite'' was sold to the Argentina-Uruguayan Navigation Touring Company, renamed ''Argentina'', and served a route crossing the

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. Seventeen were purchased by the Puget Sound Navigation Company: * ''City of Sacramento'' * ''Fresno'' (renamed ''Willapa'') * ''Golden Age'' (renamed ''Klahanie'') * ''Golden Bear'' * ''Golden Dawn'' * ''Golden Poppy'' (renamed ''Chetzemoka'') * ''Golden Shore'' (renamed ''Elwha'') * ''Golden State'' (renamed ''Kehloken'') * ''Golden West'' * ''Lake Tahoe'' (renamed ''Illahee'') * ''Mendocino'' (renamed ''Nisqually'') * ''Napa Valley'' (renamed ''Malahat'') * ''Peralta'' (renamed ''Kalakala'') * ''Redwood Empire'' (renamed ''Quinault'') * ''San Mateo'' * ''Santa Rosa'' (renamed ''Enetai'') * ''Shasta'' * ''Stockton'' (renamed ''Klickitat'') ''Golden West'' was promptly resold to

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and renamed ''North Island'' for service between San Diego and Coronado. ''Golden Bear'' was salvaged for parts after being damaged when a towline parted off the Oregon coast on 15 November 1937. The others went on to serve in the waters of northwestern

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and southwestern

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. After serving seven years as ''Elwha'', ''Golden Shore'' was sold to San Diego in 1944 and renamed ''Silver Strand'' on the San Diego-Coronado route. The '' City of Sacramento'' operated on the Seattle-Bremerton route in the 1940s, then on the Horseshoe Bay-

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route from 1952 to 1963 as the ''

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'', and finally on the Horseshoe Bay- Langdale route from 1964 to 1976 as the '' MV Langdale Queen''. The ''Peralta'', rebuilt as the MV ''Kalakala'', operated on various

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crossings and on the

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- Victoria-

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route. The ''City of Long Beach'', renamed the ''City of Angeles'', operated out of

and the ''Stockton'', which became the '' Klickitat'', operated on the Keystone-

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route until 2007. ''Mendocino'' (renamed ''Quinault'') and ''Redwood Empire'' (renamed ''Nisqually'') were retired in 2003 and scrapped in 2009. ''Santa Rosa'' was renamed ''Enetai'', returned to San Francisco Bay in 1968, and is preserved at Pier 3.

Notes

References

Works cited

* * * ''San Francisco Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History'', by John Haskell Kemble, Bonanza Books (1957, 1978). * ''San Francisco Bay Ferryboats'', by George H. Harlan, Howell-North Books (1967). * *

External links

Golden Gate Transit

Alameda/Oakland/San Francisco Ferry official website

Baylink (official Vallejo ferry website)

San Francisco Bay Ferryboats
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- list of preserved historical ferries of San Francisco Bay
A guide to the Southern Pacific Company records, 1908-1935

''The Northwesterner'', Ferryboat Issue, Spring-Summer 1995, published by The Northwestern Pacific Railroad Historical Society, Santa Rosa CA
{{San Francisco Bay watershed Ferries of California San Francisco Bay Public transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area