Old San Francisco Bay: Hunters Point notebook 2

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Ok View of old shoreline, India Basin looking SE.
Old bay shore near India Basin
1910 view bay shore. Boat-building community there 1870s- 1920. East shoreline looking S.
Shipwright’s Cottage: Built circa 1875, the Italianate cottage at 900 Innes Avenue was the centerpiece of union wooden boat building–called shipwrighting–on India Basin. Among the hundreds of boats built here were the scow schooner Alma, now berthed at the Maritime Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf, and Jack London’s adventures boat the Snark. Various WWII-era “Victory” launches were also built here. -foundsf.org c carlsson
Shipwright’s Cottage, India Basin
View from Shipwright’s Cottage of what was the boat-building community, 1870s-1920
San Francisco Bay
Previous Shoreline (now bay fill) Near India Basin
Figure 24. Boat builders’ community at Hunters Point as it appeared ca. 1900 View toward east
Source: Collection of Ruth Siemer; annotated by KVP Consulting https://bvoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/BVHP_Historical-Context.pdf
1868 bird’s eye view from Hays Historical Atlas of California
detail 1868 India Basin and Hunters Point
The Bay and Mt Diablo, Hunters Point
(NRC Survey) screenshot
Hunters Point, San Francisco Bay (Building 146) see Carter, photo tour interior: https://youtu.be/zhjwQN2_bjY
Shops and shipbuilding
Landscape, looking north.
Building 253. Adjacent berth along Drydock 4. Decontamination of nuclear test vessels from Bikini Island 1945 (Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory)
Building 253 optics periscope sighting radiological research
Building 231, machine shop; the first building built by the Navy after takeover, 1942, alongside graving dock and the red brick pump house.
1940 Navy begins construction along the old graving docks (Kemble San Francisco Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History)
Operation Crossroads target ship. Bikini Atoll nuclear test. 18 target ships-the Independence was one of six ships that sustained the most impact. In the ensuing decade, vessels were brought to HP for “decontamination” modification repair and storage, after nuclear tests.
Old Pump House, Building 205 (built 1907). A valve below originally flooded the dock. (see Carter, photo tour interiors: https://youtu.be/zhjwQN2_bjY
Pump room interior (LOC)
Abandoned admin building. (Building 134)
Gantry Crane behemoth. Completed 1947. Operation Skycatch, Polaris missile testing. Dry dock #4.Gun Moll Pier, site of nuclear decontamination of ships.
Obstructed view eastward, showing relative location of pump houses (completed ca 1907) and the old graving docks, developed in 1860’s. The left is Drydock 3 Pumphouse; (Building 140); to the right is Drydock 2 Pumphouse, (Building 205).
(NRC survey)
(Photo: Stacey M Carter)
(NRC survey screenshot; YAG ships were Liberty Ships used in nuclear tests, and so returned to HP for decontamination. )
Environmental tour of remote exclusion area, south: https://youtu.be/6cur413zFFU
USS Iowa in Drydock #4 1945
Submarine, USS Diodon in the dock 1955 (see NavSource online, courtesy Santos)
View of Dock 4, ubiquitous/ internet: photographer unknown
USS Enterprise entering Dock #4 (LOC)
3rd St Islais Creek Bridge. Construction 1945.
Islais Creek Channel 2021
Hunters Point looking east from Drydock 7. From NE area of HP toward Oakland/Alameda.
SF Ferry Building view
Bay traffic, Ferry Building
India Basin- Bay Natives Nursery http://www.baynatives.com/

India Basin- City Grazing goats https://www.citygrazing.org/
Garden, near India Basin
Central Waterfront/ 23rd. Pier 80
Islais Creek Channel as seen from 101
Ravens photo-bomb Coyote
Farrah at the derelict dance hall

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