• Many ships have wrecked in and around San Francisco Bay. For centuries San Francisco Bay, with its strong currents, rocky reefs, and low fog conditions...
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    San Francisco (CL/CA-38), a New Orleans-class cruiser, was the second ship of three of the United States Navy named after the city of San Francisco,...
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    from San Francisco Northern California megaregion Ships lost in San Francisco USS San Francisco, 3 ships Station currently at the United States Mint...
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    tourist attraction in San Francisco, California, United States. It roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square...
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    USS San Francisco (SSN-711) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, the third ship or boat of the United States Navy to be named for San Francisco, California...
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    The Port of San Francisco is a semi-independent organization that oversees the port facilities at San Francisco, California, United States. It is run...
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    agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in San Francisco and lasted for several days. More than...
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  • = 58,705 Total people on ships, soldiers & sailors = 25,826 people Total number of Guns = 2,477 Total Number of Ships Lost/Burned/Missing = to 44 Total...
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    Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, (Chinese: 唐人街; pinyin: tángrénjiē; Jyutping: tong4 jan4 gaai1) is the oldest Chinatown in North America and...
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    The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including San Francisco Bay, and anchored by the...
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    headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The building overlooks the site of the...
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    parish, founded in 1849, lost its previous church building in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The parish opened a temporary facility in 1907, raised enough...
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    Bay View or Bayview) is the San Francisco, California, neighborhood combining the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods in the southeastern corner of...
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    People in the San Francisco Bay Area rely on a complex multimodal transportation infrastructure consisting of roads, bridges, highways, rail, tunnels,...
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    architecture of San Francisco is not so much known for defining a particular architectural style; rather, with its interesting and challenging variations in geography...
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    The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the...
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    from San Francisco, California. It includes people who were born or raised in, lived in, or spent significant portions of their lives in San Francisco, or...
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  • etymologies in San Francisco, California. List of hills in San Francisco List of streets in San Francisco Henry C. Carlisle (2010). "Early San Francisco History...
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    USS F-1 (category Ships built in San Francisco)
    when her keel was laid down by Union Iron Works of San Francisco, California, making her the first ship of the United States Navy named for the carp. She...
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    endurance after seeing other ships sink and burn. In 1849, he moved to California, where he ferried passengers between San Francisco and Sacramento. Not long...
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  • district during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in San Francisco that featured dance halls, concert saloons, bars, jazz clubs, variety...
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    carrack San Antonio [es], the carrack Concepción, and the caravel Santiago [es]. The expedition began from Seville on 10 August 1519 with five ships and entered...
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    Ocean Beach is a beach on the west coast of San Francisco, California, United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. It is adjacent to Golden Gate Park...
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  • for ships of the line was navíos, but during the latter part of the Habsburg era (until 1700) ships continued to be designated as galeón. Those ships with...
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  • The history of the city of San Francisco, California, and its development as a center of maritime trade, were shaped by its location at the entrance to...
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  • traveling along the coast, no ships discover the Golden Gate and the San Francisco Bay, due to factors such as fog and ships avoiding sailing close to shore...
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    the "Sea of Cortés" in honor of his patron. When one of his ships was lost in a storm Ulloa paused to repair the other two ships, and then resumed his...
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    The three ships, Concepción, San Carlos, and Princesa Real sailed from San Blas and arrived at Nootka Sound in early April 1790. Francisco de Eliza was...
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    San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean. The largest bodies of water in the Bay Area are the San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay. The San Francisco...
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    airport in Oakland, California, United States. The airport is located 7 miles (11 km) south of Downtown Oakland and 12 miles (19 km) east of San Francisco, serving...
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