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Zazzle. Zazzle is an American online marketplace that allows designers and customers to create their own products with independent manufacturers (clothing, posters, etc.), as well as use images from participating companies. Zazzle has partnered with many brands to amass a collection of digital images from companies like Disney, Warner Brothers ...
The maritime history of California can be divided into several periods: the Native American period; European exploration period from 1542 to 1769; the Spanish colonial period, 1769 to 1821; the Mexican period, 1821 to 1847; and United States statehood period, which continues to the present day. In the history of the California coast, the use of ...
Draft. 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) Notes. 7,000 sq ft (700 m 2) sail area; wood hull. Californian is a 1984 replica of the United States Revenue Marine cutter Lawrence, which operated off the coast of California in the 1850s. [Note 1] On July 23, 2003, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Bill No. 965, making her the "official state tall ship " of ...
Mendocino ( United States ), 2 December 1888. The two-masted steam schooner was wrecked on Humboldt Bar, abandoned 7 January 1889, the lumber cargo was saved, one child died. The ship lay where it was wrecked until she broke up. [3] 40°55′0″N 124°8′30″W. / 40.91667°N 124.14167°W / 40.91667; -124.14167.
The California hide trade was a trading system of various products based in cities along the California coastline, operating from the early 1820s to the mid-1840s. In exchange for hides and tallow from cattle owned by California ranchers, [1] sailors from around the globe, often representing corporations, swapped finished goods of all kinds.
United States lightship Relief (WLV-605) is a lightvessel now serving as a museum ship in Oakland, California. Built in 1950, she is one of a small number of surviving lightships, and one of an even smaller number built specifically for the United States Coast Guard.
Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean. Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean include vessels sunk, foundered, or otherwise lost in the Pacific Ocean and associated waters. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean.
Pacific Steamship Company. The Pacific Steamship Company was a US freight and passenger shipping company that operated between 1916 and 1936. The company was formed by the merger of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and the Pacific-Alaska Navigation Company and was a direct competitor to the Alaska Steamship Company in the Alaska-Seattle ...
The West Coast lumber trade was a maritime trade route on the West Coast of the United States. It carried lumber from the coasts of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington mainly to the port of San Francisco. The trade included direct foreign shipment from ports of the Pacific Northwest and might include another product characteristic of ...
Chain Island can be seen on the left, west of Montezuma Island. Chain Island's coordinates are 38°04′11″N 121°51′11″W. [1] Sacramento County assesses the island as parcel #15801200070000, with an area of 41.81 acres (16.92 ha). [2] It is located in the Sacramento River, past the southeastern end of the Sacramento River Deep Water Ship ...