CA Thayer

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CA Thayer
CA Thayer.JPG
Ship data
flag United StatesUnited States United States
Ship type Wooden gaff saver
home port San Francisco
Owner San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park
Shipyard Hans Bendixen in Fairhaven, Humboldt Bay, USA
Launch July 9, 1895
Whereabouts Museum ship of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Ship dimensions and crew
length
66.60 m ( Lüa )
width 11.10 m
Draft Max. 2.40 m
measurement 452 GRT
 
crew 8–9 as a wooden ship
30–40 as a salmon fisherman
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Gaff saver
Number of masts 3
Number of sails 9

The CA Thayer is a museum ship belonging to the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park . In 1950 she made her last trip to the Bering Sea. It was the very last commercial voyage of one of these typical west coast vehicles. The unusual spelling of the ship's name came about because abbreviations in American English are never followed by a space.

history

The ship in 1903

The ship was built in 1895 for the shipping company EK Wood Lumber Company from San Francisco at the shipyard of the Danish shipbuilder Hans D. Bendixsen in Fairhaven on Humboldt Bay . The namesake Clarence A. Thayer was a partner of the Lumber Company. The ship was built as a wooden three-masted gaff schooner made of Douglas fir and was part of a fleet of over 100 comparable ships that brought lumber from the northwestern United States to California, which was flourishing at the time. For the next 17 years, the ship remained busy in the timber voyage. In 1912 the shipowner and canned salmon maker Peter "Whitehead Pete" Nelson bought the ship. He added an extended deckhouse up to the main mast to create more space for the 30 to 40 man crew and used the ship in the salmon voyage until 1925. The trips to Alaska began in April, where salmon was caught and canned until September.

After a sale in 1925, the ship was fitted with one-man dories and used for cod fishing with hand lines. These voyages were continued until the Second World War and were used as naval lighters in the war years from 1942. After the end of the war, the CA Thayer went fishing again, in 1950 she made her last trip to the Bering Sea, after which the ship was launched. It was also the very last commercial voyage of one of these typical vehicles on the American west coast.

The CA Thayer during the restoration

In 1957, the National Maritime Museum on Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco purchased the ship. In the following years it was restored and used as a museum ship ever since. On November 13, 1966, the CA Thayer received the status of a National Historic Landmark . After the condition deteriorated again in the following decades, the CA Thayer was fundamentally restored from 2003 to 2007 in the nearby flying boat hangar of the Alameda Naval Air Station in order to preserve it as a floating seaworthy part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.

literature

  • Otmar Schäuffelen: The last great sailing ships . Verlag Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0860-2 , p. 319 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: California. National Park Service , accessed July 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ page on the restoration (English)

Web links

Commons : CA Thayer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 37 ° 48 '33 "  N , 122 ° 25' 18"  W.