This is the user sandbox of DKSwims. A user sandbox is a subpage of the user's user page. It serves as a testing spot and page development space for the user and is not an encyclopedia article. Create or edit your own sandbox here.

Other sandboxes: Main sandbox | Template sandbox

Finished writing a draft article? Are you ready to request review of it by an experienced editor for possible inclusion in Wikipedia? Submit your draft for review!

Sources[edit]

Saloon/Hotel[edit]

News Articles[edit]

·Examiner - 1994 ^[1]

·Joe Anthony

·Englishman

·Wife: Sarah, 4 children

·Arrived in SF 17 October 1851 of British barq 'Queen' out of Liverpool

·By 1852, ran wholesale liquor business out of the hold of Arkansas (appears he used the whole ship for his business)

·"Old Ship Ale House" in the forecastle was there to supplement wholesale "case-lot" sales business

·By 1858, Anthony opened 2 more pubs - Old Ship Branch on Davis St, and The Snug at Washington & Montgomery

·Lived in a house in the "Suburbs" at Lombard and Taylor

Died at his ranch in Santa Clara 1861 of "General Debility". Buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery in SF

·Article mentions Captain Shepheard - drafted as Justice of the Peace

·Arkansas partially dismantled in 1857, rest stripped off in 1890

·Henry Klee

·German immigrant

·Wife: Liz

·Took over Old Ship in 1897 - Renamed Old Ship Saloon

·Rebuilt after 1906 Earthquake/fire in 1907

·Mentions Henry Klee Prop sign - there since 1907

·Saloon mainly served germans and Scandinavians

·Died in bed above the bar of the pneumonia in 1914

·Saloon run by "Gus and Mabel" during WWII - Saloon named "Monte Carlo"

·City records show about a dozen women boarded upstairs from saloon using it as a brothel, Mabel was the Madam, later moved operation to Columbus Avenue

·SFGate^[2] - References book by Bill Pickelhaupt^[3]

·The Arkansas crashed into the rocks at Alcatraz upon arrival in the bay

·"And that's what greeted those sailors aboard the Arkansas, which sailed around Cape Horn from New York that year and ended up crashing against the treacherous rocks of Bird Island, which folks like Al Capone affectionately came to know as Alcatraz.

·""A hole was cut in her bow to admit the thirsty," according to Bill Pickelhaupt's fine book, "Shanghaied in San Francisco." The bar was tended by one of the city's more infamous shanghaiers, James Laflin, who served as a cabin boy on the Arkansas. A hotel was later built over the ship."

·"Duffy ultimately landed at Brick's, the renamed ship saloon, in 1988 and four years later, ended up acquiring it."

·Examiner^[4] - References book by Herbert Asbury listed below ^[5]

·"As the story goes, in 1851, The Old Ship Saloon was established in the Arkansas, a three-masted ship that was damaged off Alcatraz Island and towed onto the shores of San Francisco before being abandoned. Someone cut a hole on the side of the ship and made it a bar."

·"After the 1906 earthquake and fire, the ship was replaced with a new building. The bar was renamed a couple of times until it came under the ownership of Bill Duffy, who renamed it The Old Ship Saloon."

"This was the stomping grounds of Shanghaiier Jimmy Laflin"

"Here, Laflin made his loot serving up Miss Piggott’s cocktail"

"The drink was “composed of equal parts of whisky, brandy and gin, with a goodly lacing of laudanum or opium.”

·Curbed^[6] - References other article from more reputable source^[7]

·Crew successfully excavated remains of the Arkansas below the Old Ship Saloon

·"The Old Ship Saloon on Pacific Avenue began as a New York schooner. It brought Methodist missionaries from New York, along with fortune seekers picked up along the way from New Orleans and the ports of South America"

·"workers excavating the lot next door for (what else?) a new condo project discovered bits and pieces of a classic ship this month—almost certainly the Arkansas."

·"the most significant part of the wreckage pulled up was the ship’s false keel, a bit of timber strapped onto the real keel to protect it."

·"After some consideration of what to do with it, workers buried the Old Ship parts once again"

Websites[edit]

·National Maritime Digital Library^[8]

·San Francisco Shangahiers Database^[9]

·"Every man who shipped out, save the captain and certain mates, shipped through James Laflin between 1881 and Laflin’s death in 1905. Every man’s name is recorded in Laflin’s pages, and every shanghaier signed that ledger when he or she received their due bill."

·"James Laflin received the salutation of captain in later life, a term of respect for long-time inhabitants of San Francisco’s waterfront. Captain James Laflin died June 14, 1905, at the age of 73."

Books[edit]

·Pacific Cod Fisheries^[10]

·Found in Wikimedia Commons with possible reference to Jimmy Laflin

·Cool, Gray City of Love^[11]

·locals often raided derelict ships for timber to build housing

·The Barbary Coast^[5]

Other Leads[edit]

·Atlas Obscura^[12]

Historical Marker

Ship[edit]

Construction/Dimensions/ownership[edit]

·Builder:
·Location Built: New York, NY^[7]
·Shipyard:
·Ship type:

·barque^[13]

·schooner^[7]

·Year Built: 1833^[13]
·Dimensions:
·Displacement: 627 Tons^[14]^[15]
·Owner: California Mutual Benefit and Joint Stock Association (Purchased February, 1849)^[14]^[16]
·Other physical characteristics:

·three-masted^[5]

·Previous Owner(s):
·Year Purchased:
·Purchase Price: $21,000^[15]
·Notes:

·Possible Image:

Voyage[edit]

·Departure Date: 26 June 1849^[14]^[7]
·Traveling From: Judd's Wharf^[16], New York, NY^[15]^[14]^[7]
·Arrival Date:

·19 December 1849^[13]

·20 December 1849^[15]

·Ports visited:

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil^[16]

·Talcahuano, Chile^[16]

·Route: Cape Horn
·Notes:

·Tugged out of port by Steam Tug, United States^[16]

·A baby was born during the Voyage

·Passenger Charles M. Griffith drowned while swimming in the ocean^[16]

·A cook taken on in Rio de Janeiro died by falling off a gangplank and suffering internal injuries after being given too much liquor by other passengers

·John M Flagg died of dysentary during the voyage^[16]

Crew/Passengers/Cargo[edit]

·Number of Crew/Passengers

·112 Passengers, 19 Crew^[14]^[17]^[16]

·126 passengers, 19 crew^[13]

·89 passengers.^[15]

·Named Crew

·Captain Philip W. Shepherd^[15]^[17]

·Later became a judge

·Second Mate Bill Jollifie^[15]

·Remained Pilot in SF

·Named Passengers

·Sherrold D. Stone^[15]

·later a statistician or the Merchants' Exchange

·James "Jimmy" Laflin^[15]^[3]

·Robert N. Ferrell^[7]^[14]^[16]

·Benjamin H. Deane^[14]^[16]

·Stephen Dando?

·(mentioned but not necessarily as a passenger^[14]

·Luther Paine(ref name=obituary/>

·Gold miner and later in Newspaper Advertising

·Dr. D. W. Randle^[17]

·President of California Mutual Benefit and Joint-Stock Association

·From Keokuk, Iowa

·Rev. Calvin Lathrop^[17]

·Methodist Chaplain of the California Mutual Benefit and Joint-Stock Association

·Plans to engage in missionary activity in California

James McGowan^[16]

Methodist Minister

ME Willing^[16]

Methodist Minister

William Hilton^[16]

Provisional President of the California Mutual Benefit and Joint-Stock Association prior to Calvin Lathrop

·Steward (Full name unknown)^[16]

·Dennison (Full name unknown)^[16]

·James Millington^[16]

Vice President of California Mutual Benefit and Joint Stock Association

E.D. Whiston

Corresponding Secretary of California Mutual Benefit and Joint Stock Association

·H. Hoag^[16]

Member of the Board

·H.A. Veeder^[16]

Member of the Board

·G.W. Greene^[16]

Member of the Board

·Lewis M. Burson^[16]

Member of the Board

·Truman Halvey^[16]

Member of the Board

·Ichabod Lockwood^[16]

Member of the Board

·John M. Flagg^[16]

Member of the Board

Died of dysentary during the voyage^[16]

·William N. Brown^[16]

Member of the finance committee

·J.Q.A. Stanley^[16]

Member of the finance committee

·Samuel Stafford^[16]

Member of the finance committee

·R.S. Lane^[16]

Agent of the Association in NY

·Charles M. Griffith^[16]

Drowned while swimming in the ocean during the voyage. Captain Shepheard dove in to rescue him but was unsuccessful.

·Notes:

·76 Methodist Missionaries, 36 additional passengers, 19 Officers and Sailors (131 total) ^[14]

·Each passenger paid $300 which bought equal interest in the ship, mining implements, provisions for 18 months, share of profits from other passengers and freight.^[14]^[16]

·Originally intended to have 100 passengers, all of whom were members of the Methodist church.^[14]

·Methodist passengers bought passage on the ship by buying a share in the California Mutual Benefit and Joint Stock Association.^[14]

California Mutual Benefit and Joint Stock Assoc. advertised in the following newspapers^[14]

New York Daily Tribune - 11 January (40 members at the time) - 27 June 1849^[14]

New York Christian Advocate^[14]

·Passengers were Methodist missionaries from New York along with fortune seekers picked up along the way^[7]

·It brought Methodist missionaries from New York, along with fortune seekers picked up along the way from New Orleans and the ports of South America"^[7] (Not corroborated)

Arrival/crash[edit]

·"struck on Alcatraz"^[15]

·Captain Van Pelt of the steamer Senator, was hired for $2000 to tow the Arkansas to Shore^[15]

·"The Arkansas crashed into the rocks at Alcatraz upon arrival in the bay"^[3]

·damaged off Alcatraz Island and towed onto the shores of San Francisco before being abandoned.^[4]

·Ship arrived in 1849 and was later towed in an land-locked by buildings^[18]

Storeship/Alehouse[edit]

·The ship was hauled up Pacific street, to near the northeast corner of Battery, and was used for many years as a store ship, and finally her forecastle was used as a tavern. A door cut in the bluff of her bow admitted the thirsty.^[15]

·"A hole was cut in her bow to admit the thirsty," according to Bill Pickelhaupt's fine book, "Shanghaied in San Francisco." The bar was tended by one of the city's more infamous shanghaiers, James Laflin, who served as a cabin boy on the Arkansas.^[3]

·Someone cut a hole on the side of the ship and made it a bar."^[4]

Hotel[edit]

·A hotel was finally built over her, and she was ultimately sold by Edward Bosqui, agent for Palmer, Cook & Co., to Charles Hare, for $1000, to be broken up without disturbing the hotel. Unfortunately, the New York ex-Judge, who was superintending the breaking up of the vessel, let her float late one night, when she raised up under the ground floor of the hotel, and there was a young earthquake among the lodgers that night. She had to be scuttled and sunk again^[15]

·"After the 1906 earthquake and fire, the ship was replaced with a new building.^[4]

Remains[edit]

·The quarter deck and other portions of the ship are still buried in the site^[15]

·workers excavating the lot next door for a new condo project discovered pieces of a the Arkansas.^[7]

·"the most significant part of the wreckage pulled up was the ship’s false keel, a bit of timber strapped onto the real keel to protect it."^[7]

·workers re-buried the Old Ship parts on the site^[7]

·locals often raided derelict ships for timber to build housing^[11]

·Arkansas was broken up in April 1857 but some pieces were left in place ("quarter-deck and other portions') (San Francisco Daily Alta California, May 22, 1882) ^[18]^[15]

·In April, 1857, a crew of chinese shipbreakers run by a man named "Hare" dismantled the Arkansas. Account in a local newspaper noted that “the old hulk was cut to pieces and sold for firewood, leaving only a portion of the stern” (San Francisco Morning Call, January 1, 1889).^[18]

California Mutual Benefit and Joint Stock Association[edit]

References[edit]

^ Jerry F. Shimmel (1 January 1994). "The Old Ship - A Tavern Since the Gold Rush". San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, Ca. p. 17. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
^ Garcia, Ken (21 December 2001). "Gold Rush era anchored in saloon". SFGate.com. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Pickelhaupt, Bill (1 January 1970). Shanghaied in San Francisco. Mystic Seaport Museum; First edition. p. 184 pages. ISBN 978-0964731226.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Old Ship Saloon, where the drinks came with a special twist". SFExaminer.com. San Francisco Examiner. 13 April 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Asbury, Herbert (9 October 2002). The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld. Basic Books; Illustrated Edition. p. 336 pages. ISBN 978-1560254089.
^ Brinklow, Adam (14 November 2016). "Remains of Gold Rush-era ship found under San Francisco bar". sf.curbed.com. Curbed. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Nolte, Carl (4 November 2016). "Gold Rush ship's remnants unearthed in Financial District". sfchronicle.com. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
^ Pickelhaupt, Bill Pickelhaupt. "SAN FRANCISCO SHANGAIERS 1886-1890". nmdl.org. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
^ "SAN FRANCISCO SHANGHAIERS—A DATABASE". nmdl.org. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
^ Cobb, John N (1916). Report of the U.S. commissioner of fisheries for 1915 (PDF). Washington D.C.: U.S. Government print office. pp. 108–111. OCLC 1050248535.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ ^a ^b Kamiya, Gary (6 August 2013). Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. Bloomsbury USA. p. 400 Pages. ISBN 978-1608199600.
^ Black, Anetta. "The Old Ship Saloon - A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck". AtlasObscura.com. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Maritime Heritage Project - Ships in Port - 1849". maritimeheritage.org. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Forty-niners 'round the Horn. University of South Carolina Press. 2000. p. 55-56. ISBN 978-1570033292.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o "REMINISCENCES: The Pioneer Storeships". The Daily Alta California. Vol. 34, no. 11718. San Francisco, California. 22 May 1882. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae Schultz, Charles R. (2000). "Methodists to the California Gold Fields". The American Neptune. 60 (2): 149–168. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Gone to California". The Spirit of the Age. Vol. I, no. 1. New York, NY. 7 July 1849. p. 14. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Final Archaeological Resources Report, 300 Spear Street Project, San Francisco, California (pdf) (Report). San Francisco, California. May 2007. pp. 93, 100. Retrieved 13 November 2020. {{cite report}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help); External link in |author-link= (help)

Cite error: A list-defined reference named "obituary" is not used in the content (see the help page).
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "rawls" is not used in the content (see the help page).
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "HollidaySF" is not used in the content (see the help page).
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "natgeo" is not used in the content (see the help page).

Cite error: A list-defined reference named "WalkingSF" is not used in the content (see the help page).

[Examiner1-1] Jerry F. Shimmel (1 January 1994). "The Old Ship - A Tavern Since the Gold Rush". San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, Ca. p. 17. Retrieved 29 November 2020.

[OldShip1-2] Garcia, Ken (21 December 2001). "Gold Rush era anchored in saloon". SFGate.com. Retrieved 24 September 2020.

[Shangaied-3] Pickelhaupt, Bill (1 January 1970). Shanghaied in San Francisco. Mystic Seaport Museum; First edition. p. 184 pages. ISBN 978-0964731226.

[OldShip2-4] "The Old Ship Saloon, where the drinks came with a special twist". SFExaminer.com. San Francisco Examiner. 13 April 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2020.

[BarbaryCoast-5] Asbury, Herbert (9 October 2002). The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld. Basic Books; Illustrated Edition. p. 336 pages. ISBN 978-1560254089.

[Curbed1-6] Brinklow, Adam (14 November 2016). "Remains of Gold Rush-era ship found under San Francisco bar". sf.curbed.com. Curbed. Retrieved 24 September 2020.

[Chronicle1-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Nolte, Carl (4 November 2016). "Gold Rush ship's remnants unearthed in Financial District". sfchronicle.com. Retrieved 24 September 2020.

[NMDL-8] Pickelhaupt, Bill Pickelhaupt. "SAN FRANCISCO SHANGAIERS 1886-1890". nmdl.org. Retrieved 24 September 2020.

[Database-9] "SAN FRANCISCO SHANGHAIERS—A DATABASE". nmdl.org. Retrieved 24 September 2020.

[PacificCodFisheries-10] Cobb, John N (1916). Report of the U.S. commissioner of fisheries for 1915 (PDF). Washington D.C.: U.S. Government print office. pp. 108–111. OCLC 1050248535.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[CoolGrayCityofLove-11] Kamiya, Gary (6 August 2013). Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. Bloomsbury USA. p. 400 Pages. ISBN 978-1608199600.

[AtlasObscura-12] Black, Anetta. "The Old Ship Saloon - A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck". AtlasObscura.com. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 24 September 2020.

[ShipsInPort-13] "Maritime Heritage Project - Ships in Port - 1849". maritimeheritage.org. Retrieved 13 November 2020.

[schultz-14] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Forty-niners 'round the Horn. University of South Carolina Press. 2000. p. 55-56. ISBN 978-1570033292.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[DailyAlta-15] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o "REMINISCENCES: The Pioneer Storeships". The Daily Alta California. Vol. 34, no. 11718. San Francisco, California. 22 May 1882. Retrieved 13 November 2020.

[neptune-16] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae Schultz, Charles R. (2000). "Methodists to the California Gold Fields". The American Neptune. 60 (2): 149–168. Retrieved 17 November 2020.

[Spirit-17] "Gone to California". The Spirit of the Age. Vol. I, no. 1. New York, NY. 7 July 1849. p. 14. Retrieved 17 November 2020.

[WilliamSelf-18] Final Archaeological Resources Report, 300 Spear Street Project, San Francisco, California (pdf) (Report). San Francisco, California. May 2007. pp. 93, 100. Retrieved 13 November 2020. {{cite report}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help); External link in |author-link= (help)

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]