The ''Lydia'' is a wrecked

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located below the foot of King Street in

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. The ship was built in 1840 and wrecked in 1907. San Francisco was later built up over the site of the wreck, and it was not rediscovered until a sewer construction project unearthed the remains in 1980. The shipwreck included an intact case of twenty-four bottles of

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brewed by A.S. Watson & Co. The shipwreck was added to the

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in 1981, and a plaque marking the site was placed in 2005. The Lydia historical marker 1

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Shipwreck of Whaling Bark Lydia
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