May 18th, 2023 - The Hyde Street Pier
A number of you have wondered about their whereabouts.
By Carl Nolte, Columnist May 10, 2025 - San Francisco Chronicle
Very quietly, almost without notice, most of the ships in America’s floating national park are sailing off from San Francisco to a new home port. They will be gone for a while — three to five years — until the National Park Service rebuilds the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco.
It was a bit of a shock to see the big old sailing ships missing from their berth when I drove by the northern edge of Fisherman’s Wharf the other day. But it was a pleasant sight to see them tied up, flags flying, on the waterfront at Mare Island in Vallejo a few days later. It was as if a bit of San Francisco had moved out of town.
These ships are all part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. The historic vessels docked at the foot of Hyde Street at the end of a cable car line make one of those classic scenes that define San Francisco: two tall ships, two tugboats and a big white ferryboat, the Golden Gate on one side, Alcatraz on the other. It’s the ships that launched a thousand tourist photographs.
Where have S.F.’s historic ships gone? Not too far, actually
Greg