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San Francisco Bay navy yard site survey, 1852.
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Title:
San Francisco Bay navy yard site survey, 1852Navy Yard site survey
Creator/Contributor:
Blunt, Simon Fraser, -1854, creatorAbstract:
1852 handwritten survey of sites for a possible navy yard around San Francisco Bay: Rincon Point , Mission Bay, Yerba Buena
Island, Clark's Point, Sausalito, Raccoon Cove, Aspinwall Bay, Mare Island, and Southampton Bay, done by Simon F. Blunt.
Date:
1852 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMare Island Navy Yard.
Surveys
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
Note:
Simon F. Blunt joined the United States Navy in 1838, and in 1849 was appointed to a commission investigating possible sites
for lighthouses on the Pacific Coast, assisting Commodore Cadwalader Ringgold in the creation of charts. Three years later
he was appointed to a commission charged with selecting a navy yard site on San Francisco Bay. In 1853 Blunt was hired as
captain of the SS Winfield Scott, and on December 1st of that year ran the vessel aground on Anacapa Island. He died in Baltimore
the following April 27.
On 15 January 1852, Secretary of the Navy William Alexander Graham ordered a Naval Commission to select a site for a navy
yard on the Pacific Coast, to which he appointed Commodore John Sloat, Commodore Cadwalader Ringgold, Simon F. Blunt and William
P. S. Sanger. Blunt took a survey during May and June of possible locations (with particular emphasis on San Francisco's Rincon
Point), and on July 13 Sloat recommended Mare Island. The yard opened on September 16, 1854.
Navy Yard site survey.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Physical Description:
print
1 clamshell box; 12 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.
Language:
English
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.