Steam Schooner Wapama: Historic Structure Report
1986. Steam Schooner Wapama: Historic Structure Report. Historic Structure Report. Tri-Coastal Marine, Inc.. San Francisco, CA
Since her launching in 1915, the steam schooner WAPAMA has had a long and productive life. She has served well, both in plying cargo and passengers along the stormy West Coast from Mexico to Alaska, and in helping to transmit the heritage of West Coast seafaring to generations born long after her sisters had disappeared forever. By 1979, her 64th year, the particular rigors of both kinds of duty had brought her to a crisis point, a crisis which has deepened in the years of lay-up since. By 1985, when she was listed as a National Historic Landmark, her continued survival had been rendered extremely problematic. To guide its efforts in addressing WAPAMA's preservation problems, the National Maritime Museum at San Francisco, an entity within the National Park Service, initiated this Historic Structures Report. Since 1977 the NPS has been steward of WAPAMA and the other ships of an historic fleet which was first assembled by the State of California. The report was undertaken in the fall of 1985 by Tri-Coastal Marine Inc., a consulting group with experience in the restoration and management of historic vessels.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 1986
- Publisher
- Tri-Coastal Marine, Inc.
- Units
- GOGA , HIST
- Keywords
- Cultural, Cultural Resources, Culture, ehistory, History, Management, Man-made structure, Organization, Preservation, recommendation, Structure