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A guide to the Roy Pasqualetti photograph album of Hercules (built 1907; tugboat), 1971-1972
P15-016 (SAFR 24643)
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Title: Roy Pasqualetti photograph album of Hercules (built 1907; tugboat)
Date: 1971-1972
Identifier/Call Number: P15-016 (SAFR 24643)
Creator:
Pasqualetti, Roy
Physical Description:
1 item.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The Roy Pasqualetti photograph album of Hercules (built 1907; tugboat), 1971-1972, (SAFR 24643, P15-016) is comprised of photographs
documenting the condition of the museum vessel HERCULES at Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime State Historic Park, San
Francisco, California, as photographed by Roy Pasqualetti. The collection has been processed to the Collection level and is
open for use.
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
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The album pages have been removed from the original album for conservation reasons. For documentation purposes, digital photographs
were taken before the items were removed and the album was discarded.
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[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], P15-016 (SAFR 24643), Roy Pasqualetti photograph album of Hercules (built 1907; tugboat), San Francisco Maritime
National Historical Park
SAFR-02413
The album was given to SAFR staff member Erik Olson in 1987 by Chris Hoskins, former HERCULES volunteer leader. Photos were
taken by Roy Pasqualetti, former volunteer aboard HERCULES.
Historical or Biographical Note
Vessel History: HERCULES (built 1907; tugboat) was built by John H. Dialogue and Son at Camden, New Jersey, for the Shipowners'
and Merchants' Tugboat Company's Red Stack fleet based in San Francisco, California. As an ocean-going tug, she towed barges,
sailing ships, and log rafts between Pacific ports. In 1924, HERCULES was acquired by the Western Pacific Railroad Company
to shuttle railroad car barges across San Francisco Bay until 1962. The California State Park Foundation acquired her for
the San Francisco Maritime State Historic Park in 1975. The National Park Service took over the task of her restoration in
1977, and in 1986 she was designated a National Historic Landmark. HERCULES is exhibited as a museum ship at Hyde Street Pier,
San Francisco, California as part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. [Information retrieved from http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/hercules-history.htm,
accessed November 1, 2011].
The Roy Pasqualetti photograph album of Hercules (built 1907; tugboat), 1971-1972, (SAFR 24643, P15-016) is comprised of photographs
documenting the condition of the museum vessel HERCULES at Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime State Historic Park, San
Francisco, California, as photographed by Roy Pasqualetti. The collection has been processed to the Collection level and is
open for use.
Contains photographs by Roy Pasqualetti of the interior and exterior of HERCULES (built 1907; tugboat) while docked as a museum
vessel at Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime State Historic Park (now known as San Francisco Maritime National Historical
Park), San Francisco, California, 1971-1972. There are 71 color and 20 black-and-white photographic prints.
A index page at the beginning of the album reads, "Hercules pictures 1971 & 1972 some of the tug's first years at the Park.
She still had the Seaborn Towing Co. colors and W. P. [Western Pacific Railroad Company] stack emblem. Photos by Roy P. [Pasqualetti]."
Page 1. Items 01-06. 6 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of HERCULES as
seen from the deck of EUREKA (paddle ferry) and from Hyde Street Pier.
Page 2. Items 07-11. 5 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of the pilothouse,
mast, and aft deck (mooring bits in view).
Page 3. Items 12-17. 6 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of the bow, stack
with Western Pacific Railroad Co. emblem, lifeboat atop the deckhouse, and the triple expansion steam engine.
Page 4. Items 18-23. 6 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of panel area
in engine room with missing gauges, triple expansion steam engine, boilers, and pumps.
Page 5. Items 24-29. 6 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of triple expansion
steam engine, crewmember's cabin, and drum.
Page 6. Items 30-35. 6 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of the drum, Lurens
Iron & Steel Co. builder's plate, and galley stove and sink, and the mess room.
Page 7. Items 36-41. 6 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of equipment and
crew areas.
Page 8. Items 42-47. 6 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of a sink, beds,
a light, stack, ventilator, and anchor windlass.
Page 9. Items 48-53. 6 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of the top of
the deckhouse, a lifeboat, and the stack.
Page 10. Items 54-59. 6 color photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of the deckhouse,
towing engine, and tiller.
Page 11. Items 60-65. 4 color and 2 black-and-white photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper.
Views of a piece of deck hardware near the tiller, ALMA (scow schooner) alongside, and the triple expansion steam engine.
Page 12. Items 66-71. 6 black-and-white photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of
the triple expansion steam engine.
Page 13. Items 72-77. 6 black-and-white photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of
the triple expansion steam engine.
Page 14. Items 78-83. 6 black-and-white photographic prints, 3.5 x 3.5 in., mounted on one sheet of black paper. Views of
the triple expansion steam engine.
Page 15. Items 84-87. 4 color polaroid photographic prints, 3.5 x 4.25 in. Views of the triple expansion steam engine.
Page 16. Items 87-91. 4 color polaroid photographic prints, 3.5 x 4.25 in. Views of unidentified people (possibly volunteers)
at work on deck.
Photographs are arranged in the order in which they appeared in the original album.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Tugboats
Historic ships
Ships--Preservation
Maritime museums
Hercules (built 1907; tugboat)
San Francisco Maritime State Historic Park (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)
Photograph albums
Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Color prints (photographs)