Lydia (whaling bark)

The Lydia
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Site of the shipwreck, which is buried below the street
Location	At the foot of King Street near Pier 42, San Francisco, California
Coordinates	37°46′51″N 122°23′18″W / 37.78083°N 122.38833°WCoordinates: 37°46′51″N 122°23′18″W / 37.78083°N 122.38833°W
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1840
Built by	Meigs, Joseph & Sons
NRHP Reference #	81000173[1]
Added to NRHP	July 16, 1981

The Lydia is a wrecked whaling ship located below the foot of King Street in San Francisco, California. The ship was built in 1840 and wrecked in 1907.^[2] San Francisco was later built up over the site of the wreck, and it was not rediscovered until a sewer construction project unearthed the remains in 1980. The shipwreck included an intact case of twenty-four bottles of ginger beer brewed by A.S. Watson & Co.^[3] The shipwreck was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, and a plaque marking the site was placed in 2005.^[1][4]

Plaque marking the exact site of the ship

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "Abandoned Shipwreck Act Guidelines Part IV. Shipwrecks in the National Register of Historic Places". National Park Service. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
3. Filion, Ron S. "Buried Ships". San Francisco Genealogy. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
4. "Embarcadero Historic and Interpretive Signage Project (San Francisco, Calif.): Detail of "Ghost Ship Lydia" bronze relief in pavement". WorldCat. Retrieved September 27, 2014.

External links

• Shipwreck of Whaling Bark Lydia at NoeHill