San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

Edward Warbass

Sallie K. Braun

Meet the recipients of the 2017 George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service. These award recipients are recognized for their exceptional dedication and service to parks and programs.

The Freeman Tilden Awards for Excellence in Interpretation and Education recognize an individual and a team for excellence, achievement, and innovation in the profession of interpretation, education and visitor engagement. Congratulations to the national 2020 Freeman Tilden Award recipients, Justin Olson of Apostles Island National Lake Shore, and Anne Monk and Sabrina Oliveros of San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park.

Wartime artwork was discovered and preserved beneath the bleachers of the Maritime Museum.

The Alaska Packers Association started the Diamond NN <NN> Cannery after it absorbed a small saltery that was built in 1890 on the southside of the Naknek River, adjacent to a small creek. The cannery continues to operate over a century later, now owned by Trident Seafoods. In 2015, historian and former fish house slimmer Katherine Ringsmuth launched the <NN> Cannery History Project to collect, share, and preserve the stories of cannery workers here.

In the fall of 2019, the National Park Foundation rolled out new ads in San Francisco and New York for the Find Your Park campaign. From September 23 through October 28, a series of digital and static outdoor ads appeared in bus shelters, billboards, and other spaces in the city of New York and San Francisco.

According to family memory, Julia Ann Shelton Shorey’s grandfather, Samuel Shelton, was brought west as an enslaved person in the 1840s and ultimately purchased his own freedom and that of his family in the new state of California.

The Kaiulani logbooks offer a glimpse into the daily lives of sailors on their voyage from Aberdeen, WA to Durban, South Africa to Hobart, Tasmania. The logbooks date from 1941-42, and this was the last American crew to sail around Cape Horn in a commercial square-rigged sailing vessel.

First-hand accounts of sailing voyages can be found in journals and logbooks in San Francisco Maritime's Museum Collection. Sail back in time by reading a few of these first-hand accounts of maritime voyages.