San Francisco prison ship Successgreenspun.com : LUSENET : San Francisco History : One Thread |
Anyone have any info on the whereabouts of the prison ship "success"?I have some video of it. The ship's keel was laid in 1790 and it was in dock in SF in 1915. After that who knows.
-- Bill Williams (oceans1129@yahoo.com), January 07, 2003
film record archive located and forwarded to alaskan historian
-- Bill Williams (oceans1129@yahoo.com), January 18, 2003.
I'm not sure where the ship is or what happened to it. But, while cleaning up a house we bought I found a box marked, Souvernirs of the Prison Ship "Success".
It has a large spike and a chunk of wood that looks like it was in a fire.
-- Robin Rastello (robinr@pasty.net), February 03, 2003.
hang onto it in any case...perhaps a museum in Melbourne, Australia would be interested in it...
-- Bill Williams (oceans1129@yahoo.com), February 03, 2003.
Dont know much about the ship but have located a cane with a copper plaque marke "Souvineer of the Prison ship Success, Built 1790". Any info my way would be a great help. thanks Jon
-- Jon Hollands (dookadog@aol.com), June 11, 2003.
Good afternoon. All those prison hulk Success material should be sent to Richard Norgard in Anchorage Alaska. You can email him at nauticalguy@hotmail.comI am a great granddaughter of one of the caretakers of the ship Success. Although my great grandfather sold the ship circa 1911, I would be interested in seeing the video
I live in Simi Valley, CA by the way.
Ruth Pealer
-- Ruth Pealer (ruth_6572@hotmail.com), September 26, 2003.