Ferries of San Francisco Bay
The Creek Route ferries (1851–1937)
One of the earliest ferry routes ran between
Railroad ferries (1862–1958)
The first
When trains reached Oakland, freight cars were loaded aboard ferries from Long Wharf on Oakland Point beginning in 1870. Freight car ferry loading switched to the Oakland Mole in 1881. After 1890 freight cars were delivered to the San Francisco Belt Railroad ferry slip at the foot of Lombard and East Streets. Belt Railroad tracks were later dual-gauged to also carry cars from the narrow gauge North and South Pacific Coast Railroads.[6]
The Key System transit company established its own ferry service in 1903 between the Ferry Building in San Francisco and its own pier and wharf ("mole") on the Oakland shoreline, located just south of what is today the eastern approach to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
Ferries began serving north bay rail connections with the Petaluma and Haystack Railroad in 1864. San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (SF&NP) and Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad (P&SR) [7] ferries connected Petaluma River landing locations with San Francisco. North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) ferries connected Sausalito[8] with San Francisco, and SF&NP ferries later sailed from Tiburon. Some of these ferries operated on Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) schedules from 1907 to 1938.[9]
The Napa Valley Railroad established service in 1865 and connected with ferry boat service in Vallejo, California. Monticello Steamship Company began operating ferries between Vallejo and San Francisco in 1895, and began coordinating with train schedules in 1905. Golden Gate Ferry Company gained control of Monticello in 1927 and, after merging with Southern Pacific, discontinued ferry service to Vallejo in 1937.[10]
Sacramento Northern Railway used a ferry to cross the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers between Mallard and Chipps. Service began in 1912 with the wooden ferry Bridgit carrying six interurban cars. Bridgit burned in 1913 and was replaced by the steel ferry Ramon with the same car capacity.[6]
Santa Fe and Western Pacific (WP) both ran passenger ferries connecting their east bay terminals to San Francisco; but both discontinued ferry service in 1933. Southern Pacific maintained a dominant position in Bay ferry service by gaining control of the South Pacific Coast Railroad (SPC) ferries in 1887,[11] the Northwestern Pacific ferries in 1929,[12] and the Petaluma and Santa Rosa ferries in 1932.[13] After the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1936 and 1937, Southern Pacific passenger ferry service was reduced to four routes: Ferry Building to Oakland Pier, Ferry Building to Alameda Pier, Hyde Street to Sausalito, and the Northwestern Pacific Ferry Building to Sausalito service. The route from Hyde Street to Sausalito was suspended in 1938 by order of the State Railroad Commission, the last ferry to Alameda ran in 1939, and the Ferry Building to Sausalito service ended February 1941.[14] Many of the large passenger ferries were idled until World War II, when they were mobilized by the federal government to transport military personnel around the bay and shipyard workers from San Francisco to Marinship and Richmond Shipyards. The last Southern Pacific ferry ran between Oakland and San Francisco on July 29, 1958.[15]
Auto ferries (1909–1956)
Although earlier ferries had carried teams and wagons, Melrose was launched in 1909 as the first San Francisco Bay ferry built with an unobstructed lower deck specifically intended for automobiles, and an upper deck for passengers. Southern Pacific ferries Melrose and Thoroughfare were designated to carry automobiles to and from San Francisco on the original Creek Route in 1911. Southern Pacific built new facilities to shift auto routing to the Oakland Pier in 1921 and purchased three new
Cross-Bay air service (1914–1986)
In 1914, a short-lived seaplane ferry ran between San Francisco and Oakland. From 1930 to 1933, a more successful trans-Bay seaplane ferry was operated by Air Ferries Ltd. It ran from Pier 5 on the San Francisco waterfront to a shoreline barge docked at the foot of Franklin Street along the Oakland Estuary. It also operated between San Francisco and Vallejo. A fatal accident in 1933 put an end to the service.[17]
During the 1960s, SFO Helicopter transported passengers to and from the San Francisco and Oakland airports from various locales around the bay, including the San Francisco waterfront and the Berkeley Marina. After ceasing operations in the 1970s it briefly resumed service in 1983 before going out of business in 1986.[18][19]
Rebirth of ferries (1959–present)
With the abandonment of the last railroad ferries, there was a brief period 1958–1962 with no commuter ferry service at all on the Bay (though tourist-oriented service to Angel Island began in 1959
In 1973 Alcatraz Island opened to the public as a museum and ferry service from San Francisco began under a concession granted by the National Park Service.[25]
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused a section of the Bay Bridge road deck to collapse, closing it to all traffic. In response, ferry service was quickly set up between piers in Oakland and Alameda and San Francisco (following almost the same path as the 19th-century "creek route" ferries). This service continued to operate with sponsorship from the City of Alameda and Port of Oakland after the bridge reopened the following month.[26]
In 2011 the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) was set up to take over the Oakland/Alameda route and other routes between San Francisco and the East Bay, forming the San Francisco Bay Ferry system; over the following decade it added several additional routes.[27] WETA contracts with the private Blue & Gold Fleet for the operation of these services. Blue & Gold additionally operates its own tourist-oriented ferry and sightseeing services; together these make the company the largest ferry transportation provider in the Bay Area as of 2022[update].[28]
Current ferry routes
Annual ridership
FY* | San Francisco Bay Ferry | Golden Gate Ferry | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alameda/ Oakland |
Harbor Bay | Richmond | South San Francisco | Vallejo/ Mare Island |
Alameda Seaplane |
Larkspur | Sausalito | Tiburon | |
2006–07 | 443,000 | 130,000 | — | — | 897,000 | — | 1,477,762 | 547,173 | |
2007–08 | 459,000 | 145,000 | 848,000 | 1,414,588 | 565,255 | ||||
2008–09 | 400,000 | 143,000 | 690,000 | 1,370,400 | 578,635 | ||||
2009–10 | 421,000 | 147,000 | 682,000 | 1,338,764 | 583,331 | ||||
2010–11 | 455,130 | 154,000 | 697,000 | 1,432,039 | 599,180 | ||||
2011–12 | 545,393 | 177,159 | 5,141 | 668,770 | 1,526,375 | 669,039 | |||
2012–13 | 606,960 | 203,131 | 40,505 | 713,300 | 1,605,989 | 718,885 | |||
2013–14 | 821,633 | 246,695 | 84,098 | 826,445 | 1,677,050 | 793,533 | |||
2014–15 | 911,473 | 266,304 | 107,389 | 858,665 | 1,727,872 | 812,819 | |||
2015–16 | 1,149,085 | 311,313 | 125,946 | 959,939 | 1,753,484 | 791,638 | |||
2016–17 | 1,183,188 | 321,289 | 136,320 | 1,000,773 | 1,692,741 | 768,942 | 61,394 | ||
2017–18 | 1,311,041 | 332,283 | 144,735 | 1,056,342* | 1,660,272 | 726,010 | 191,855 | ||
2018–19 | 1,384,300 | 355,713 | 84,576 | 142,749 | 1,081,665 | 1,644,783 | 629,954 | 195,467 | |
2019–20 | 1,006,824 | 246,657 | 158,199 | 103,798 | 783,379 | 1,712,507 | 1,148,981 | 139,535 | |
2020–21 | 102,482 | — | 24,688 | 137,328 | — | 89,861 | |||
2021–22 | 479,196 | 113,207 | 158,986 | 24,075 | 484,686 | 145,786 | 690,362 | ||
Sources:[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57] |
Ferryboat roster
Present
- Golden Gate (7 vessels)
- Golden Gate (II)
- Del Norte
- Marin
- Mendocino
- Napa
- San Francisco
- Sonoma
- WETA (16 vessels)
- Argo
- Bay Breeze
- Carina
- Cetus
- Dorado
- Gemini
- Hydrus
- Intintoli
- Lyra
- Mare Island
- Peralta
- Pisces
- Pyxis
- Scorpio
- Taurus
- Vela
- Angel Island–Tiburon
- Angel Island
- Bonita
- Tamalpais
- Blue & Gold (20+ vessels)
- Golden Bear
- Oski
- Royal Star
- Zelinsky
- Red & White (5 vessels)
- Enhydra
- Harbor Princess
- Harbor Queen
- Royal Prince
- Zalophus
- NWP[citation needed]
- Ukiah
Past
Historical ferryboat table
Name[58] | Operator | In Service[58] | Retired | Gross Tons[58] | Length (feet)[58] | Horse- power[58] | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alameda | SF&A / CPRR / SP | 1866 | 1898 | 813 | 193 | 350 | side-wheel passenger ferry |
Alameda
|
SP | 1914 | 1943 | 2302 | 273 | 2500 | side-wheel passenger ferry; sold to USN as YHB-25 after wartime shipyard service[58] |
Alvira | Davie | 1889 | 1916 | 469 | 144 | 200 | stern-wheel passenger ferry |
Amador | CPRR / SP | 1869 | 1904 | 985 | 199 | 300 | side-wheel passenger ferry |
Antelope | SF&NP | 1871 | 1888 | 581 | 202 | side-wheel passenger ferry built 1848[9] | |
Bay City | SPC / SP | 1878 | 1929 | 1283 | 230 | 800 | side-wheel passenger ferry |
Berkeley | SP | 1898 | 1958 | 1945 | 261 | 1450 | passenger ferry |
Boston | Gray | 1852 | 1852 | ||||
Bridgit | Sacramento Northern Railway | 1912 | 1913 | 186 | interurban car ferry[6] | ||
Caleb Cope | Gray | 1852 | 1852 | ||||
Calistoga | Monticello / GG / SP | 1907 | 1939 | 2680 | 298 | 2600 | built as Florida; rebuilt as auto ferry in 1927; sold to USN as YFB-21[58] |
Capital | CPRR / SP | 1876 | 1896 | 1989 | 277 | 900 | side-wheel passenger ferry: Steamboat built in 1866 by John Gunder North for the California Steam Navigation Company; on the Sacramento - San Francisco run until 1876.[59]: 125 |
Cazadero | NS / NWP | 1903 | 1941 | 1682 | 257 | 1600 | converted to barge in 1941[8] |
City of Long Beach | [60] | ||||||
City of Sacramento | Monticello / GG / SP | 1918 | 1941 | 3016 | 297 | 5900 | auto ferry; sold to Puget Sound Navigation; requisitioned for wartime shipyard service to Richmond yard 2[61] |
Claremont | Key | ||||||
Clinton | Contra Costa / NPC | 1853 | 1877 | 194 | 128 | 125 | side-wheel passenger ferry; sunk in collision in 1877;[8] built by Domingo Marcucci[62]: 15 |
Contra Costa | Contra Costa / SF&A / NPC | 1857 | 1882 | 449 | 170 | 150 | side-wheel passenger ferry,[8] built by John G. North[63]: 127–128, 135 |
Contra Costa | SP | 1914 | 1930 | Carquinez Strait train ferry[6] | |||
El Capitan | CPRR / SP | 1868 | 1925 | 982 | 194 | 250 | side-wheel passenger ferry |
El Paso
|
SP / Richmond-San Rafael | 1924 | 1956 | 1953 | 234 | 1400 | auto ferry transferred from SP service in 1938 |
Encinal | SP | 1888 | 1930 | 2014 | 245 | 1000 | side-wheel passenger ferry |
Erastus Corning | Brown | 1852 | 1852 | [2] | |||
Eureka | NWP / SP | 1923 | 1957 | 2420 | 277 | 1500 | Steam engine side-paddle ferry; Vessel originally built in 1890 as the railway ferry Ukiah with capacity for 10 freight cars;[6] conversion to a passenger ferry began in 1922 & was completed in 1923; after being converted to passenger use, "Ukiah" was renamed "Eureka";[8] preserved at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park[8] |
Feather River | WP | 1913 | 1933 | 1578 | 218 | 2500 | built as Edward T. Jeffery; sold to SP as Sierra Nevada in 1933[64] |
Fresno (now MV Willapa) | SP | 1927 | 1940 | 2468 | 243 | 1800 | diesel auto ferry |
Garden City | SPC / SP | 1879 | 1929 | 1080 | 208 | 625 | side-wheel passenger ferry |
USAT General Frank M. Coxe | United States Army | 1922 | 1947 | 539 | 144 | military personnel ferry | |
General Frisbie | Monticello | 1901 | 1927 | passenger ferry[10] | |||
General McPherson | United States Army | 1867 | 1887 | 104 | Fort Alcatraz ferry[65][66] | ||
General Sutter | Gray | 1851 | 1852 | [2] | |||
Gold | P&SR | 1903 | 1920 | 334 | 140 | 200 | stern-wheel passenger & freight ferry built in 1883; burned 8 November 1920[7] |
Gold | P&SR / NWP | 1921 | 1935 | 317 | 155 | 150 | stern-wheel passenger & freight ferry built as Fort Bragg in 1899[7] |
Golden Age | GG / SP | 1928 | 1937 | 779 | 227 | 1200 | diesel auto ferry |
Golden Bear | GG / SP | 1927 | 1937 | 779 | 227 | 1200 | diesel auto ferry |
Golden Coast | GG / SP | 1903 | 1937 | 616 | 175 | 1200 | auto ferry built as Yerba Buena; then Harry E. Speas[58] |
Golden Dawn | Key /GG / SP | 1905 | 1937 | 612 | 180 | 2000 | former Key System passenger ferry San Francisco rebuilt as auto ferry[58] |
Golden Era | Key / GG / SP | 1908 | 1937 | 673 | 194 | 2000 | former Key System passenger ferry Fernwood rebuilt as auto ferry[58] |
Golden Gate | GG / SP | 1922 | 1937 | 598 | 207 | 1300 | diesel auto ferry |
Golden Poppy | GG / SP | 1927 | 1937 | 779 | 227 | 1200 | diesel auto ferry |
Golden Shore | GG / SP | 1927 | 1937 | 779 | 227 | 1200 | diesel auto ferry |
Golden State | GG / SP | 1926 | 1937 | 780 | 227 | 1200 | diesel auto ferry |
Golden Way | Key / GG / SP | 1907 | 1937 | 1138 | 189 | 2000 | former Key System passenger ferry Claremont rebuilt as auto ferry[58] |
Golden West | GG / SP | 1923 | 1937 | 594 | 214 | 1300 | diesel auto ferry |
Grace Barton | Whitney | 1890 | 1916 | 194 | 100 | 60 | stern-wheel passenger ferry |
Hayward | Key | 1945 | requisitioned for wartime shipyard service | ||||
Hector | Gray | 1852 | 1852 | [2] | |||
James M. Donahue | SF&NP / NWP | 1875 | 1921 | 730 | 228 | side-wheel passenger ferry[9] | |
Jenny Lind | Gray | 1850 | 1853 | 61 [63]: 139 | [2] Wrecked by an explosion on April 13, 1853.[63]: 139 | ||
Kangaroo | Gray | 1851 | 1852 | [2] | |||
Klamath
|
SP / Richmond-San Rafael | 1924 | 1956 | 1952 | 234 | 1300 | auto ferry transferred from SP service in 1938 |
Lagunitas | NS / NWP | 1903 | 1921 | 767 | 280 | 400 | stern-wheel freight car ferry[8] (capacity 8 freight cars)[6] |
Las Plumas | WP | 1957 | diesel railcar ferry | ||||
Lake Tahoe | SP | 1927 | 1940 | 2468 | 243 | 1800 | diesel auto ferry |
Louise | SF&O / CPRR | 1870 | 1877 | 368 | 148 | 125 | side-wheel passenger ferry |
Mare Island | Berkeley | 1870 | 1877 | 338 | 124 | 125 | side-wheel passenger ferry |
Marin | SF&NP / NWP | 1909 | 1934 | 101 | 97 | passenger ferry built as Requa and renamed after repairing fire damage in 1911[9] | |
Melrose | SP | 1909 | 1931 | 2662 | 273 | 1340 | side-wheel auto ferry |
Mendocino | NWP | 1927 | 1939 | 2467 | 243 | 1800 | diesel auto ferry |
Napa Valley | Monticello / GG / SP | 1910 | 1940 | 2185 | 231 | 2600 | auto ferry |
Newark | SPC / SP | 1877 | 1923 | 1783 | 268 | 1200 | side-wheel passenger ferry rebuilt as Sacramento in 1923[58] |
New Orleans
|
SP | 1924 | 1938 | 1952 | 234 | 1400 | auto ferry sold as Russian River in 1938 |
Oakland | San Antonio / Contra Costa / SF&O / CPRR | 1859 | 1874 | 418 | 200 | side-wheel passenger ferry | |
Oakland | CPRR / SP | 1875 | 1940 | 1672 | 265 | 200 | side-wheel passenger ferry built as a side-wheel steamboat Chrysopolis in 1860, by John G. North;[58] rebuilt as a double ended ferry-boat in 1875 by Patrick Henry Tiernan;[67] destroyed by fire in 1940.[63]: 34–40, 136, 142 |
Ocean Wave | Santa Fe | 1901 | 1933 | ||||
Peralta | 1857 | 1857 | [68] | ||||
Peralta | Key | 1926 | 1933 | passenger ferry; burned 6 May 1933 | |||
Petaluma | P&SR | 1884 | 1914 | 264 | 135 | 250 | stern-wheel passenger & freight ferry built as Resolute in 1884; burned 22 March 1914[7] |
Petaluma | P&SR / NWP | 1914 | 1935 | 448 | 148 | 250 | stern-wheel passenger & freight ferry built in 1914 using the engine of the burned ferry Petaluma[7] |
Piedmont | SP | 1883 | 1940 | 1854 | 257 | 257 | side-wheel passenger ferry |
Ramon | Sacramento Northern | 1913[6] | 1954 | 600 | interurban car ferry[69] | ||
Ranger | Chipman & Aughinbaugh | 1853 | 1854 | 29 | passenger ferry destroyed by boiler explosion 8 January 1854 | ||
Red Jacket | Minturn | 1852 | 1857 | [2] | |||
Redwood Empire | NWP | 1927 | 1939 | 2470 | 243 | 1800 | diesel auto ferry |
Rosalie | Davie | 1893 | 318 | 137 | 350 | passenger ferry | |
Russian River
|
Richmond-San Rafael | 1938 | 1956 | 1952 | 234 | 1400 | former auto ferry New Orleans purchased in 1938 |
Sacramento | SP | 1923 | 1954 | 2254 | 268 | 1400 | side-wheel passenger ferry rebuilt from Newark in 1923[58] |
San Antonio | San Antonio / Contra Costa / SF&O | 1858 | 1871 | 659 | side-wheel passenger ferry | ||
San Jose | Key | ||||||
San Leandro | Key / SP | 1923 | 1958 | 1653 | 225 | 1325 | passenger ferry requisitioned for wartime shipyard service and then to United States Army[70] |
San Mateo | SP | 1922 | 1940 | 1782 | 217 | 1400 | auto ferry |
San Pablo | Santa Fe | 1900 | 1933 | 1535 | passenger ferry[71] | ||
San Pedro | Santa Fe | 1911 | 1933 | 1720 | passenger ferry; became USN YFB-46[71] | ||
San Rafael | NPC | 1877 | 1901 | 692 | 220 | side-wheel passenger ferry sunk in collision in 1901[8] | |
Santa Clara
|
SP | 1915 | 1945 | 2282 | 273 | 2500 | side-wheel passenger ferry requisitioned for wartime shipyard service to Marinship |
Santa Rosa
|
NWP | 1927 | 1939 | 2465 | 243 | 1800 | diesel auto ferry |
Saucelito | NPC | 1877 | 1884 | 692 | 220 | side-wheel passenger ferry burned at San Quentin in 1884[8] | |
Sausalito | NPC / NS / NWP | 1894 | 1932 | 1766 | 256 | 1200 | side-wheel freight car and passenger ferry[8] |
Sehome | Monticello | 1909 | 1918 | passenger ferry built as stern-wheel Mountain Queen in 1877; rebuilt with side-wheel propulsion in 1889; rebuilt with propeller in 1914; sunk in collision with General Frisbie[10] | |||
Shasta | SP | 1922 | 1940 | 1782 | 217 | 1400 | auto ferry |
Sierra Nevada | SP / Richmond-San Rafael | 1933 | 1956 | 1578 | 218 | 2500 | formerly WP passenger ferry Feather River purchased 1933; requisitioned for wartime shipyard service to Richmond yard 1; converted to auto ferry when sold by SP in 1947 |
Solano | CPRR / SP | 1879 | 1930 | 484 | Carquinez Strait train ferry[6] | ||
Sophie MacLane | SF&A | 1858 | 1864 | 242 | 148 | side-wheel passenger ferry | |
Stockton | SP | 1927 | 1940 | 2467 | 243 | 1800 | diesel auto ferry |
Tamalpais | NPC | 1857 | 1900 | 365 | 150 | side-wheel passenger ferry built as Petaluma of Saucelito[8] | |
Tamalpais | NPC / NS / NWP | 1901 | 1941 | 1631 | 245 | 1800 | side-wheel passenger ferry; sold to USN in 1941 as floating barracks at Mare Island[8] |
Telephone | WP | 1912 | 1913 | [64] | |||
Thoroughfare | CPRR / SP | 1871 | 1909 | 1012 | 248 | 400 | side-wheel freight car ferry (capacity 18 cars)[6] |
Thoroughfare | SP | 1912 | 1935 | 2604 | 273 | 1300 | side-wheel auto ferry |
Tiburon | SF&NP / NWP | 1884 | 1925 | 1248 | 240 | side-wheel passenger ferry[9] | |
Transit | CPRR / SP | 1875 | 1934 | 1566 | 314 | 500 | side-wheel freight car ferry (capacity 20 cars)[6] |
Washoe | SF&O / CPRR | 1864 | 1878 | 580 | 250 | side-wheel passenger ferry | |
Yerba Buena | Key | requisitioned for wartime shipyard service to Richmond yard 3 and then to United States Army | |||||
Yosemite | SP | 1923 | 1939 | 1782 | 217 | 1400 | auto ferry |
Relocated ferryboats
Several ferries that had seen service on San Francisco Bay were relocated after the bay bridges were built. Yosemite was sold to the Argentina-Uruguayan Navigation Touring Company, renamed Argentina, and served a route crossing the
- City of Sacramento
- Fresno (renamed Willapa)[70]
- Golden Age (renamed Klahanie)
- Golden Bear
- Golden Dawn
- Golden Poppy (renamed Chetzemoka)
- Golden Shore (renamed Elwha)
- Golden State (renamed Kehloken)
- Golden West
- Lake Tahoe (renamed Illahee)
- Mendocino (renamed Nisqually)
- Napa Valley (renamed Malahat)
- Peralta (renamed Kalakala)
- Redwood Empire (renamed Quinault)
- San Mateo
- Santa Rosa (renamed Enetai)
- Shasta
- Stockton (renamed Klickitat)
Golden West was promptly resold to
Notes
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External links
- Golden Gate Transit Archived November 24, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- Alameda/Oakland/San Francisco Ferry official website
- Baylink (official Vallejo ferry website)
- San Francisco Bay Ferryboats
- "So Where Are They Now? The Story of San Francisco's Steel Electric Empire". Bay Crossings. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007.
- Cable Car Guy - list of preserved historical ferries of San Francisco Bay
- A guide to the Southern Pacific Company records, 1908-1935
- The Northwesterner, Ferryboat Issue, Spring-Summer 1995, published by The Northwestern Pacific Railroad Historical Society, Santa Rosa CA