A guide to the Equator (built 1888; tugboat) photographs, 1983
Processed by: L. Bianchi, July 2016.
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
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A Guide to the Equator (built 1888; tugboat) photographs
P16-009
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, National Park Service2016, National Park Service
Title: Equator (built 1888; tugboat) photographs
Date: 1983
Identifier/Call Number: P16-009 (SAFR 24815)
Creator:
Taylor, Robert
Physical Description:
32 items.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The Equator (built 1888; tugboat) photographs, 1983, (SAFR 24815, P16-009) are comprised of color slides showing the tugboat
EQUATOR, a former two-masted schooner, hauled out at the Port of Everett in Everett, Washington. 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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[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], P16-009 (SAFR 24815), Equator (built 1888; tugboat) photographs, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
SAFR-02508
Transfer from the Library. Found in the office of David Hull, former Park librarian. Originally consisted of two boxes of
slides, 1 marked "keep" with 25 slides and the other marked "discard" with 23 slides. The Photo Archivist selected 7 slides
to remove from the discard box to be kept in the collection. The slides were likely marked as discard due to quality issues.
Historical or Biographical Note
EQUATOR was built in 1888 as a two-masted schooner by Matthew Turner in Benicia, California. The vessels served as a Pacific
copra trader until 1895. During this time, author Robert Louis Stevenson chartered the vessel in 1889 for a voyage in the
South Pacific. In 1896, EQUATOR was sold to serve in the Alaska fishing trade. She was converted into a steam cannery tender
the following year. In 1915, the Cary-Davis Tug and Barge Company of Seattle, Washington, purchased EQUATOR for use as a tugboat.
EQUATOR was abandoned in 1956 in Everett, Washington. In the 1960s there was interest in restoring the vessel and she was
hauled ashore in 1967. She was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. However, restoration efforts were
abandoned and in 1980 EQUATOR was moved to the Port of Everett where she now resides under a protective shed. Source: Historic
American Engineering Record. Schooner Equator written historical and descriptive data (HAER No. WA-206).
Robert Taylor was the former owner of the sternwheel paddle ferry DELTA KING.
The Equator (built 1888; tugboat) photographs, 1983, (SAFR 24815, P16-009) are comprised of color slides showing the tugboat
EQUATOR, a former two-masted schooner, hauled out at the Port of Everett in Everett, Washington. The collection has been processed
to the Collection level and is open for use.
Contains 32 color slides, 35mm, of EQUATOR (built 1888; tugboat) seen from various angles while hauled out for possible restoration
at the Port of Everett in Everett, Washington, 1983. Photographed by Robert Taylor of Vancouver, B.C.
No arrangement due to the small size of the collection.
Louis F. Smith photographs, circa 1980. SFMNHP, (SAFR 14769, P80-147). Consists of twenty-four 35mm color negatives of schooner
EQUATOR under restoration at Everett, Washington, Louis F. Smith photog., circa 1980.
- This material is located at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ships--Preservation
Schooners
Tugboats
Everett (Wash.)
Color slides