No Grave Yard for these Ships

SAN Francisco is planning an elaborate maritime museum in which the main exhibits will be floating sailing ships associated with the history of the Golden Gate, An artist’s impression of the proposed enclosed pool, in which the ships will float, and the surrounding park is published above.

A number of old ships associated with

the more spacious days of the Pacific are expected to find a home there—among them the bark-rigged Kaiulani, once well-known in Hawaii waters; and City of Papeete, a barkentine which was, in her early days, a mail packet plying between San Francisco and the South Seas.

In her heyday City of Papeete was well-known in her namesake town and our photograph shows her tied up at Papeete wharf, loading coconuts in 1897.

The photograph is from the collection of Mr. Oscar Nord man of Papeete, who first went to sea in the Matson

ships 40 years ago and who has made a hobby of collecting data about the Pacific sailing ships of last century.

Leading citizens of San Francisco have formed a committee with the object of acquiring some of these old ships—many of them now derelict. They will be re conditioned before being placed in the museum.