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The Roe Island Light was built on Roe Island, in the Suisun Bay across from Port Chicago, 33 miles (53 km) inland from the Golden Gate and five miles (8 km) east of Benicia. Congress approved the construction of the lighthouse in 1888, giving the project 10,000 dollars. [ 2 ]
The Carquinez Strait (/ k ɑːr ˈ k iː n ə s /; Spanish: Estrecho de Carquinez) [1] [2] is a narrow tidal strait located in the Bay Area of Northern California, United States.It is part of the tidal estuary of the Sacramento and the San Joaquin rivers as they drain into the San Francisco Bay.
Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and levels of high and low tides, usually for a particular location. [1] Tide heights at intermediate times (between high and low water) can be approximated by using the rule of twelfths or more accurately calculated by using a published tidal ...
Benicia State Recreation Area is a state park unit of California, United States, protecting tidal wetland. It is located in the Solano County city of Benicia , 2 miles (3.2 km) west of downtown Benicia and borders Vallejo's Glen Cove neighborhood.
According to the January 11, 1854, Sacramento Daily Union, the first steamboat in California, besides the Sitka, was the Pioneer brought out in pieces from Boston, and put together at the West Point, in Benicia, and launched there in August, 1849, by the "Edward Everett Company". She was a side-wheeler, 70 feet in length, 25 feet beam, with an ...
The Solano was a large railroad ferry, built as a reinforced paddle steamer with independently powered sidewheels by the Central Pacific Railroad, that carried entire trains across the Carquinez Strait between Benicia and Port Costa in California daily for 51 years, from 1879 to 1930.
The designated SMCA area includes the waters below the mean high tide line within Upper Newport Bay, northeastward of Pacific Coast Highway approximated by a line between the following points: 1. 33°37.02′N 117°54.24′W / 33.61700°N 117.90400°W / 33.61700; -117.90400 ( 1st
Benicia was a barquentine built by Matthew Turner in Benicia, California in 1899. She was known for a fast passage from Newcastle, New South Wales to Kehei, Hawaii, of 35 days. [2] Benicia was wrecked on Lafolle Reef off Haiti on 10 October 1920. [3]