What a find this is!!!!!!!
1888 Picture of ULC Mill and picture of schooner West Coast
1888 – Picture of schooner West Coast taking on first load of lumber from the Fort Bragg Pier
Category Archives: Piers
S. S. Pasadena calling at Albion
According to our website’s section on ships the Pasadena was built in 1887 by Hay and Wright in San Francisco. She displaced 300 tons. She was turned into a salvage tender/oil skimmer in her last years. She was finally abandoned in Oakland Creek, San Francisco Bay. The following pic is an addition to the two we have of her which are located in the website.
S.S. Pasadena
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The Fort Bragg Pier – a 1960 review of its existence and the ships that used it
We have a pretty good page on the Union Lumber Company’s (ULC) Pier at Fort Bragg. However every snippet of history is important. The text and pictures below are, I think, taken from a 75th anniversary publication of the ULC in 1960. There are a few new “bits” therein including, so far as I know, the only pic of the pier being built..
Textn- click on any pic to enlarge.
Captain Jack Bostrom was for many years captain of National Steamship Co. steam schooners,
Last piling of the pier in 1960 – it no longer exists
C.R Johnson, the owner of the ULC, towed the first pilings for the pier, two at a time, down the Noyo River (Fort Bragg) and up the coast with a row-boat.
Crew building the pier inn 1884
The pier from the air in the 1930’s
The National City was owned by the National Steamship Co. 310 gross tons when she was built in 1888. She was ultimately sold to Peru in 1918. In 1907 she was said to be the fastest boat on the Mendocino Coast.
The National City
Towing a log raft from Fort Bragg in 1886, Several ofthese rafts were built but they proved to be unsuccessful as
they broke up at sea.
Towing a log raft
The Noyo was the first three steam schooners of the name, “Noyo” owned and operated by the ULC and the National Steamship Co. She was 316 gross tons when built in 1888. She hit a rock off of Albion on February 26th 1918 and sunk in tow off of Point Arena.
The Noyo
The barkentine S.C. Allen (690 tons when built) tied up at the Fort Bragg pier. She is loading for a trip to Honolulu on November 2, 1909. Her cargo consisted of 591,000 board feet of redwood, 28,000 board feet of split posts and 34,000 board feet of redwood shingles.
S C Allen
The S.S. Brunswick (512 tons) was owned by the National Steamship Co, She was built in 1898 and sold in 1931. She carried 40 passengers in addition to her cargo of lumber. She was said to have carried the first load of Dole pineapples rom Hawaii to the U.S. mainland.
S S Brunswick