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California is a 1947 American Western film directed by John Farrow and featuring Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, and Barry Fitzgerald. [2] Stanwyck's singing voice was dubbed by Kay St. Germaine. Plot
A schooner that was blown up for a movie in Catalina Harbor, Santa Catalina Island, in about 1926. Monfalcone: 31 August 1930 A gambling ship that caught fire and sank off Long Beach. USS Moody United States Navy: 21 February 1933 A Clemson-class destroyer that was blown up in San Pedro Bay for the MGM movie Hell Below. USS Moray United States Navy
USS Los Angeles was a rigid airship, designated ZR-3, which was built in 1923–1924 by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as war reparations.She was delivered to the United States Navy in October 1924 and after being used mainly for experimental work, particularly in the development of the American parasite fighter program, was decommissioned in 1932.
The Airship Ventures company operated zeppelin passenger travel to California from October 2008 to November 2012 [131] with one of these Zeppelin NT airships. [ 132 ] In May 2011, Goodyear announced that they would replace their fleet of blimps with Zeppelin NTs, [ 133 ] [ 134 ] resurrecting their partnership that ended over 70 years ago.
The S.S. Point Reyes, long ago abandoned at the edge of Tomales Bay, has been loved and abused by decades of visitors. And its days appear to be numbered.
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. [3] On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales; the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota ...
The abandoned fishing vessel has rested against California’s rocky Central Coast shore since 2017. Shipwrecked ‘ghost boat’ looms on California coast. Where did it come from?
In 1851—California enacted a law concerning oysters and oyster beds. In 1852 the first regulation of salmon fishing occurred when fishing weirs or stream fish obstructions were prohibited and closed seasons established. In 1870 California Board of Fish Commissioners, predecessor to the California Department of Fish and Game was