California, a 58' 2" motor boat, was built in 1910 at San Francisco, California, for local employment as a pilot boat. She was taken over by the Navy in the spring of 1917 and placed in commission as USS California (SP-647). Later renamed SP-647, she served on Section Patrol duties for the rest of World War I and was returned to the San Francisco Bar Pilot's Association in November 1918.
This page features all the views we have concerning the motor boat California, which was later USS California (SP-647) and USS SP-647.
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Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.
Additional Photographs: The San Francisco Maritime Museum, located in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, holds additional photographs of the pilot boat California in its Livingston Collection. Information on the museum, including details on using its extensive historical photography collections, can be found on the museum's WebSite, which can be readily accessed via standard Internet search engines.
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 19 September 2004