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Polaris (built 1902; schooner, 4m) wreck, salvaging a donkey engine at Duxbury Reef, Bolinas, CA, 1914

View taken aboard the wreck. The POLARIS, a four - masted schooner of 790 tons, carrying a million feet, was built at Marshfield, Ore., in 1902 for the Pacific Shipping Co., San Francisco. On January 16, 1914, she left San Francisco for Eureka in tow of the steam schooner WILMINGTON. She broke adrift off Bolinas and was wrecked on Duxbury Reef, the crew of 10 being rescued. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.July 26, 1941, p. 2.[CR][CR]Source: "L&C - Alff Hansen, 4/18/60".

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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Code: SAFR

NPS Museum Number Catalog : SAFR 21374
Local Park number : P93-065, Series 5, File Unit 3, Item E03.08056

San Francisco Maritime Museum classified photograph collection, 1575-1984
San Francisco Maritime Digital Museum Archival Collection

Title: Guide to the San Francisco Maritime Museum classified photograph collection, 1575-1984 located on the Online Archives of California website.
URL: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8hm5f30/

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01/01/1914 - 12/30/1914

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