![]() August 1, 1819Herman Melville is born in New York City. He will later write what is considered by some to be the greatest English language sea novel, Moby Dick.![]() August 5, 1775The launch from the ship San Carlos becomes the first European vessel to enter San Francisco Bay, according to the articles in the summer 1975 issue of the Sea Letter.![]() (NPS photo) August 19, 1964Kenichi Horie signs the Research Center's rare copy of his book Kodoku about his solo sail across the Pacific.![]() August 27, 1849John N. Stone, passenger bound for California around Cape Horn, writes in his diary, "… to our inexpressible joy, and in uncontrollable excitement, we quickly found that we had at last entered the "Golden Gate"…we all had reason to be joyful at this termination; and, moreover, thankful, that life itself had been preserved to us all during so long a voyage- not only from perils of the sea, but under a change of habits, and a regime of diet, to which few of us had ever before been subjected." (California gold rush voyages, 1848-1849: three original narratives, p. 164) |
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