Selected Bibliography

The 1886 square-rigger Balclutha, berthed at Hyde Street Pier.
Ships/Pier

The ship-shaped Museum Building.
Museum

The Maritime Library's Lyman Reading Room
Library/
Research

Aloft in the Balclutha's rigging.
Programs

Hyde Street Pier entrance
Special
Events

Building a small craft.
Volunteers

Front page of lesson plans for fourth grade classes.
Educators

Small image of boat with orange-striped sails, from a Bertonccini watercolor.
Spotlight

San Francisco Maritime National Park Association logo.
San Francisco Maritime National Park Association

Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library.
Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library

National Park Service Arrowhead

 Many of these titles are available in the Park's Maritime Library. Those marked with ** are also available at the Maritime Store on Hyde Street Pier. Titles marked
with "OP" are out of print.

(OP) Archibald, Katherine. Wartime Shipyard: A Study of Social Disunity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947.

** Belano, James W. The Log of a Skipper's Wife. Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1979.

Behrens, David. "Becoming Seaworthy." Newsday, Sec. B, Part 2 (July 26, 1994), B6-7.

Brosnan, Peter L. "Captain Mary Patten." Oceans, Vol. 20, No. 5 (Sept/Oct, 1987).

Canright, Stephen. "Two Women on Bay Tugs." Sea Letter, No.49 (Fall/Winter, 1994), 16-19.

** Colman, Peggy. Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Homefront in World War II. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., l995.

(OP) Crapo, Thomas. Strange But True: Life and Adventures of Capt. Thomas Crapo and Wife. Bedford, MA, 1893.

(OP) DePauw, Linda. Seafaring Women. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.

** Druett, Joan. Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea. New York: Touchstone Books, 1998.

** Druett, Joan. She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.

(OP) Duncan, Fred B. Deepwater Family. San Francisco: Pantheon Books, 1969.

(OP) Finnie, Richard, editor. Marinship: The History of a Wartime Shipyard. San Francisco: Taylor and Taylor, 1947.

** Haller, Stephen A. Families at Sea: An Examination of the Rich Lore of "Lady Ships" and "Hen Frigates". San Francisco: National Maritime Museum Association, l985.

** Jaffee, Walter W. The Last Liberty: The Biography of the S. S. Jeremiah O'Brien. Palo Alto, CA: The Glencannon Press, l993.

Johnson, Marilynn S. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Jensen, Vickie. Saltwater Women at Work. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre Ltd., 1995.

** Stark, Suzanne, J. Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996.

(OP) Wollenberg, Charles. Marinship at War: Shipbuilding and Social Change in Wartime Sausalito. Berkeley, CA: Western Heritage, 1990.

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