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Shipwright's Workshop, Northern Waterfront
For many years San Francisco was the ship-building capital of West Coast. Many wooden ship builders had yards on the docks and in the 1800s the city produced 113 three-masted schooners, 21 five-masted schooners, and 87 barkentines. Steel shipbuilding was also established here in 1883 when a group of Scottish mechanics founded the Union Iron Works. Once the foremost industrial plant in the western United States, these men from the Clyde Valley built 86 steel vessels in the works in just under 22 years. Among those built was the battleship Oregon and Admiral Dewey's flagship, the cruiser Olympia.
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