{"id":419,"date":"2020-01-21T02:06:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T02:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stainlesspublishing.com\/stainlesspublishing\/?page_id=419"},"modified":"2020-01-21T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T02:06:13","slug":"ss-palo-alto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stainlesspublishing.com\/stainlesspublishing\/ss-palo-alto\/","title":{"rendered":"SS Palo Alto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SS <em>Palo Alto<\/em> was built by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company at the U.S. Naval Shipyard in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakland,_California\">Oakland, California<\/a>. She was launched on 29 May 1919, too late to see service in the war.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Palo_Alto#cite_note-FFS-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> Her sister ship was the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Peralta\">SS&nbsp;<em>Peralta<\/em><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Palo Alto<\/em> was mothballed in Oakland until 1929, when she was bought by the Seacliff Amusement Corporation and towed to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seacliff_State_Beach\">Seacliff State Beach<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aptos,_California\">Aptos, California<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Palo_Alto#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pier\">pier<\/a> was built leading to the ship in 1930,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Palo_Alto#cite_note-guarino20170123-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> and she was sunk in a few feet in the water so that her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keel\">keel<\/a>  rested on the bottom. There she was refitted as an amusement ship, with  amenities including a dance floor, a swimming pool and a caf\u00e9.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Palo_Alto#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company went bankrupt two years later during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States\">Great Depression<\/a>, and the ship cracked at the midsection during a winter storm. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_of_California\">State of California<\/a> purchased the ship,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Palo_Alto#cite_note-guarino20170123-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> and she was stripped of her fittings and left as a fishing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pier\">pier<\/a>. She was a popular site for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Recreational_fishing\">recreational fishing<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Palo_Alto#cite_note-guarino20170123-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> but eventually she deteriorated to the point where she was unsafe for this purpose, and she was closed to the public in 1950.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Palo_Alto#cite_note-guarino20170123-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>\n Following an attempt at restoration in the 1980s, she reopened for \nfishing for a few years, then closed again. The fishing pier opened to \nfoot traffic once again in the summer of 2016, but later closed for \nrepairs.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/stainlesspublishing.com\/stainlesspublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DJI_0040-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stainlesspublishing.com\/stainlesspublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DJI_0040-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stainlesspublishing.com\/stainlesspublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DJI_0040-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stainlesspublishing.com\/stainlesspublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DJI_0040-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stainlesspublishing.com\/stainlesspublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DJI_0040-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stainlesspublishing.com\/stainlesspublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DJI_0040-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>SS Palo Alto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SS Palo Alto was built by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company at the U.S. Naval Shipyard in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":393,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-portfolio.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-419","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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